AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i7-2600K

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

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Intel Core i7-2600K

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 84.99

$ 1373.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2571 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

4067 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2123 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

2039 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

44.04 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2292 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

665 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2289 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

665 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

3.4 GHz

61% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

612th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i7-2600K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2600K performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i7-2600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-2600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.