AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i7-3960X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-3960X

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 250.00

$ 1208.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

3693 points

56% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

4998 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

3261 points

68% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

3155 points

70% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

69.62 points

86% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

3363 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

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

3209 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

661 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.3 GHz

57% 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

766% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

464th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2011 November

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 i7-3960X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3960X 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3960X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3960X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3960X 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.