amd ryzen 5 3500u vs intel core i3 7020u
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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 3500U (Laptop) 4-cores against Intel Core i3 7020U (Laptop) 2-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 3500U
- Newer released 3 years later
- Has 2 more physical cores
- Around 4.3 GB/s (11%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
- Has 1 MB larger L3 cache size
- 38% higher Turbo Boost frequency (3.7 GHz vs 2.3 GHz)
- More modern manufacturing process – 12 versus 14
- Supports up to 64 GB DDR4 Dual-channel RAM
Advantages of Intel Core i3 7020U
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
Specifications
General
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | Intel Core i3 7020U | |
| Vendor | AMD | Intel |
| Released | January 6 2019 | August 30 2016 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Picasso | Kaby Lake |
| Socket | FP5 | FC-BGA1356, FCBGA1356 |
| Integrated GPU | AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) | Intel HD Graphics 620 |
Performance
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | Intel Core i3 7020U | |
| Cores | 4 | 2 |
| Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Base Frequency | 2.1 GHz | 2.3 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 3.7 GHz | 2.3 GHz |
| L1 Cache | 128K (per core) | 128 KB |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 512 KB |
| L3 Cache | 4 MB (shared) | 3 MB |
Power
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | Intel Core i3 7020U | |
| Fabrication process | 12 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 W | 15 W |
| Max. temperature | °C | 100°C |
Memory support
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | Intel Core i3 7020U | |
| Memory types | DDR4 Dual-channel | DDR4 |
| Memory Size | 64 GB | 32 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 38.397 GB/s | 34.1 GB/s |
| ECC Support | Yes | No |
iGPU
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | Intel Core i3 7020U | |
| Integrated Graphics | AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) | Intel HD Graphics 620 |
| GPU Base Clock | 300 MHz | 300 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | MHz | 1 MHz |
| Shading Units | 512 | 192 |
| TMUs | 32 | 24 |
| ROPs | 8 | 3 |
| TGP | 65 W | 15 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Misc
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | Intel Core i3 7020U | |
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 5 3500U official page | Intel Core i3 7020U official page |
| PCI Express Version | 3 | 3 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 12 | 12 |