AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i7-3770K

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 i7-3770K

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 344.89

$ 1113.11 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2702 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

4366 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2208 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

2118 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

47.21 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

2474 points

0.69% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

708 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

0.64% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2489 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

709 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

3.5 GHz

66% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

413% significantly lower TDP

77 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

588th of 1,089

Family

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Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i7-3770K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3770K 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 and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-3770K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3770K 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.