AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i5-8250U

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 130.00
$ 1397.00 significantly less expensive
$ 1527.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points
118% significantly better overall score
1907 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points
105% significantly better gaming score
3207 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points
121% significantly better multitasking score
1532 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points
121% significantly better heavy workload score
1465 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points
127% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
1696 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points
125% significantly higher Blender score
38.03 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points
199% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1971 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
771 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
125% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089
738th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i5-8250U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500X beats the Core i5-8250U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8250U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8250U. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8250U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3500X thanks to a 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 3500X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8250U. The Ryzen 5 3500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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