AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i7-5930K

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i7-5930K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5930K 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-5930K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Indeed, the Core i7-5930K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-5930K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5930K 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.