Ryzen 5 3500U vs Ryzen 5 2600H

Place in the ranking	1207	1339
Place by popularity	not in top-100	46
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Ryzen 5	AMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiency	10.60	27.60
Architecture codename	Raven Ridge (2017−2018)	Picasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)
Release date	10 September 2018 (6 years ago)	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 2600H 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	4 (Quad-Core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	8	8
Base clock speed	3.3 GHz	2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.2 GHz	3.7 GHz
Bus type	no data	PCIe 3.0
Multiplier	32	21
L1 cache	384 KB	128K (per core)
L2 cache	2 MB	512K (per core)
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	14 nm	12 nm
Die size	209.78 mm²	209.78 mm²
Maximum core temperature	no data	105 °C
Number of transistors	4950 Million	4940 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 2600H 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 (Uniprocessor)	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	FP5	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 2600H and Ryzen 5 3500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT	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	+	+
Precision Boost 2	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 2600H and Ryzen 5 3500U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 2600H and Ryzen 5 3500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4 Dual-channel	DDR4
Maximum memory size	32 GB	64 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	51.196 GB/s	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	+	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 2600H and Ryzen 5 3500U.

PCIe version	3.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	12	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.

Ryzen 5 2600H 5.23
+15.2%

Ryzen 5 3500U 4.54

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.

Ryzen 5 2600H 8002
+15.3%

Ryzen 5 3500U 6941