AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-9300H

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i5-9300H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9300H beats the Ryzen 5 3500U in overall performance. 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9300H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i5-9300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-9300H 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.