AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i7-4790K

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 130.00
$ 153.12 significantly less expensive
$ 283.12

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4187 points
33% slightly better overall score
3145 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6634 points
31% slightly better gaming score
5031 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3411 points
31% slightly better multitasking score
2587 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3273 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score
2484 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points
37% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
2813 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
73.53 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4415 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1357 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4402 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1403 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
4 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
4.4 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35% slightly lower TDP
88 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

432nd of 1,109
532nd of 1,109

Family

The product line

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4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

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