Pentium 8505 vs Ryzen 5 3500U

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 3500U and Pentium 8505 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1342not rated
Place by popularity36not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Ryzen 5Intel Alder Lake-M
Power efficiency27.60no data
Architecture codenamePicasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)Alder Lake-U (2022)
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)23 February 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 3500U and Pentium 8505 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)5 (Penta-Core)
Threads86
Base clock speed2.1 GHz1.2 GHz
Boost clock speed3.7 GHz4.4 GHz
Bus typePCIe 3.0no data
Multiplier21no data
L1 cache128K (per core)80K (per core)
L2 cache512K (per core)1.25 MB (per core)
L3 cache4 MB (shared)8 MB (shared)
Chip lithography12 nmIntel 7 nm
Die size209.78 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °C100 °C
Number of transistors4940 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+no data

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 3500U and Pentium 8505 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1
SocketFP5Intel BGA 1744
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Pentium 8505. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI++
FMA+-
AVX++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Flex Memory Accessno data+
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Ryzen 5 3500U and Pentium 8505 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
Secure Keyno data+
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Pentium 8505 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Pentium 8505. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4, DDR5
Maximum memory size64 GB64 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)Intel® UHD Graphics for 12th Gen Intel® Processors
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data1.1 GHz
Execution Unitsno data48

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Ryzen 5 3500U and Pentium 8505 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data4

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Pentium 8505 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data4096 x 2304 @ 60Hz
Max resolution over eDPno data4096 x 2304 @ 120Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPortno data7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Pentium 8505 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12.1
OpenGLno data4.6

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Pentium 8505.

PCIe version3.04.0
PCI Express lanes1220

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2019 23 February 2022
Physical cores 4 5
Threads 8 6

Ryzen 5 3500U has 33.3% more threads.

Pentium 8505, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and 25% more physical cores.

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