AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i7-6700HQ

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-6700HQ

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 1773.00 significantly less expensive

$ 3231.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2465 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

3937 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2027 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

1949 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

56.39 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

3315 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

1050 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

3434 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

1099 points

25% 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

2.6 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

45 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

635th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

6th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i7-6700HQ benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700HQ 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 i7-6700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6700HQ CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.