AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 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

2650 points
2678 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4215 points
4361 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2190 points
0.41% slightly better multitasking score
2181 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2104 points
0.57% slightly better heavy workload score
2092 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.87 points
50.58 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2704 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2287 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

923 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
663 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2612 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2338 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

903 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
672 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.50 GHz
66% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

602nd of 1,089
597th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U performs better than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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