AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i5-8350U

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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Intel Core i5-8350U

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 859.00 significantly less expensive

$ 989.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

114% significantly better overall score

1943 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

101% significantly better gaming score

3266 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

116% significantly better multitasking score

1565 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

117% significantly better heavy workload score

1497 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

105% significantly higher Blender score

41.73 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

111% significantly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 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

728th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i5-8350U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500X is faster than the Core i5-8350U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-8350U that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-8350U has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8350U. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8350U 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3500X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8350U. The Ryzen 5 3500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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