AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-8279U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2436 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

4% slightly better gaming score

3645 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2073 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

2006 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

58.56 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

3618 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

1163 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

3733 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

1205 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

2.4 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.1 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

86% significantly lower TDP

28 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

640th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i5-8279U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8279U beats the Ryzen 5 3500U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8279U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i5-8279U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8279U CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.