AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i9-8950HK

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i9 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

68% significantly better overall score

2473 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

79% significantly better gaming score

3684 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

60% significantly better multitasking score

2115 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

2044 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

0.34% slightly higher Blender score

85.61 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4580 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1270 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5219 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1422 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

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.8 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% 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

634th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i9

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 i9-8950HK benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-8950HK performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i9-8950HK has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-8950HK 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 i9-8950HK. The Ryzen 5 3500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.