AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i9 7960X
CPU · Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Jan 2019
Sep 2017
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Laptop
Desktop
Instruction Set
x86-64
x86-64
Core Architecture
Picasso
Skylake
Integrated Graphics
Radeon Vega 8
N/A
Processor Number
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i9-7960X
Package
Transistor Count
4.9 billions
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Manufacturing Process
12 nm
14 nm
Socket
FP5
LGA-2066
Power Consumption
12-35 W
165 W
Peak Operating Temperature
105 °C
98 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores
4
16
Performance Core Threads
8
32
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.1 GHz
2.8 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.7 GHz
4.2 GHz
Total Core Count
4
16
Total Thread Count
8
32
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
21x
28x
L1 Cache
96 K per core
64 K per core
L2 Cache
512 K per core
1 MB per core
L3 Cache
4 MB shared
22 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Yes
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR4-2400
DDR4-2666
Max Memory Size
32 GB
128 GB
Max Memory Channels
2
4
Max Memory Bandwidth
35.76 GB/s
79.47 GB/s
ECC Memory Support
Yes
No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics
true
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GPU Base Frequency
300 MHz
—
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
1200 MHz
—
Shader Units
512
—
Texture Units
32
—
Raster Operation Units
8
—
Execution Units
8
—
Power Consumption
65 W
—
Max Resolution
3840x2160 - 60 Hz
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Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
3.0
3.0
PCIe Lanes
12
44
Extended Instruction Set
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SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2, AVX-512
Benchmark
Cinebench R23
765
1,099
Cinebench R23
2,752
22,189
Geekbench 6
920
1,313
Geekbench 5
550
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Geekbench 6
2,547
9,066
Geekbench 5
2,859
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Blender
49
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Passmark CPU
1,954
2,489
Passmark CPU
6,987
26,917
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.