AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i7-4870HQ

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

3% slightly better overall score

2285 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

4% slightly better gaming score

3638 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1884 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1806 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

57.01 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

2877 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

870 points

0.93% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

3685 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

1136 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.5 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

Identical

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

213% significantly lower TDP

47 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

666th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2014 August

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 i7-4870HQ comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4870HQ performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Core i7-4870HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4870HQ 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.