AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i7-8850H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8850H 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8850H 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8850H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3500U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U.

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.