Ryzen 5 3500U vs Pentium G6960

Place in the ranking	2546	1359
Place by popularity	not in top-100	32
Market segment	Desktop processor	Laptop
Series	no data	AMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiency	1.17	27.49
Architecture codename	Clarkdale (2010−2011)	Picasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)
Release date	9 January 2011 (13 years ago)	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium G6960 and Ryzen 5 3500U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	2 (Dual-core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	2	8
Base clock speed	2.93 GHz	2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed	0.93 GHz	3.7 GHz
Bus type	no data	PCIe 3.0
Multiplier	no data	21
L1 cache	64 KB (per core)	128K (per core)
L2 cache	256 KB (per core)	512K (per core)
L3 cache	3072 KB (shared)	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	32 nm	12 nm
Die size	81 mm²	209.78 mm²
Maximum core temperature	73 °C	105 °C
Number of transistors	382 million	4940 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium G6960 and Ryzen 5 3500U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	1	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	FCLGA1156	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	73 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium G6960 and Ryzen 5 3500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI	-	+
FMA	-	+
AVX	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Idle States	+	no data
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
PAE	36 Bit	no data
FDI	+	no data

Security technologies

Pentium G6960 and Ryzen 5 3500U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
EDB	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium G6960 and Ryzen 5 3500U are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-x	+	no data
EPT	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium G6960 and Ryzen 5 3500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR4
Maximum memory size	16.38 GB	64 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	17 GB/s	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	-	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

Intel HD

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) ( - 1200 MHz)

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium G6960 and Ryzen 5 3500U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported

no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium G6960 and Ryzen 5 3500U.

PCIe version	2.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	16	12

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pentium G6960 0.90

Ryzen 5 3500U 4.36
+384%

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Pentium G6960 1433

Ryzen 5 3500U 6930
+384%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Pentium G6960 459

Ryzen 5 3500U 862
+87.8%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Pentium G6960 814

Ryzen 5 3500U 2482
+205%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.90	4.36
Recency	9 January 2011	6 January 2019
Physical cores	2	4
Threads	2	8
Chip lithography	32 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	73 Watt	15 Watt

Ryzen 5 3500U has a 384.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads, a 166.7% more advanced lithography process, and 386.7% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 5 3500U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium G6960 in performance tests.

Note that Pentium G6960 is a desktop processor while Ryzen 5 3500U is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium G6960 and Ryzen 5 3500U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.