AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i7-8700T

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

41% slightly better overall score

2945 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

56% significantly better gaming score

4207 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

2558 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

2473 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

92.37 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4790 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1265 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4733 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1336 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

546th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i7-8700T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500X is faster than the Core i7-8700T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-8700T has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8700T. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8700T 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 i7-8700T. 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.