AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-8365U

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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Intel Core i5-8365U

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 1278.00

$ 180.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

22% slightly better overall score

1927 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3320 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

1537 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

1474 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

41.28 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2419 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

638 points

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

31% slightly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

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

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

731st 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 i5-8365U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8365U 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8365U. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.