AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Xeon E5-430

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

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Price

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$ 1458.00
$ 129.95
$ 1328.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points
4% slightly better overall score
2250 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points
21% slightly better gaming score
3133 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points
1956 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points
1887 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points
302% significantly higher Blender score
9.25 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1179 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points
129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
376 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points
140% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1041 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
356 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.66 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
433% significantly lower TDP
80 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
12 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089
673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2007 November

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 5 3500U vs Xeon E5-430 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500U is faster than the Xeon E5-430. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-430 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-430 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-430 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-430 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500U

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.

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