AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-7600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-7600K

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 304.35

$ 1153.65 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2899 points

22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

5366 points

40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2207 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

2115 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

61.33 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

4236 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

1491 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

4238 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

1522 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.8 GHz

80% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

506% significantly lower TDP

91 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

553rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i5-7600K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7600K is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i5-7600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-7600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-7600K. Despite this, the Core i5-7600K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.