AMD Ryzen 5 3500U or AMD Ryzen 5 4500U - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.
The AMD Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.70 GHz. Up to 32 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 3500U was released in Q1/2019.
The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 cores with 6 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.00 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U was released in Q1/2020.
The AMD Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U is 2.10 GHz (3.70 GHz) while the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 CPU cores and 6 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U is at 2.30 GHz (4.00 GHz).
Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
The AMD Ryzen 5 3500U or AMD Ryzen 5 4500U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
The AMD Ryzen 5 3500U can use up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 38.4 GB/s. The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 51.2 GB/s.
The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U is 15 W, while the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U has a TDP of 15 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.
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Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.
Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U is the successor to the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U. The mobile processor now has 6 CPU cores (previously 4) and can process 6 threads at the same time because it no longer supports SMT. With its 4 CPU cores, the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U could process up to 8 threads simultaneously thanks to SMT (Hyper-Threading).
The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U is up to 4 GHz (single-core load) or 3.8 GHz (multi-core load), well above the clock frequencies of the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U. This is mainly due to the new 7 nm manufacturing, in which the new AMD Renoir APUs are manufactured. The AMD Ryzen 5 3500U is still manufactured in an older 12 nm manufacturing process and uses the Picasso architecture from AMD. Picasso APUs connect Zen + (Ryzen 2xxx) CPU cores with an AMD Radeon Vega iGPU.
The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U, on the other hand, can already fall back on the newer Zen2 CPU cores (Ryzen 3xxx). In addition, AMD has greatly increased the level 3 cache of the mobile processors (in the case of the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U, the level 3 cache of 8 MB has even doubled compared to the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U).
Both processors can address up to 32 GB of RAM in two memory channels, whereby the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U is limited to DDR4-2400, while the newer AMD Ryten 5 4500U supports RAM up to the DDR4-3200 type. The iGPU also benefits from this, as it can use up to 2 GB of RAM as graphics memory.
Due to the higher clock frequency and a slight improvement in the computing power per clock, the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U calculates approx. 20 percent faster in single-core scenarios and up to 25 percent faster in applications that can use more than 1 CPU core. The theoretical graphics performance, on the other hand, has even deteriorated somewhat, which is due to the reduction in the GPU cores (execution units). In practice, the graphics performance is roughly the same.