Ryzen 5 3500X: specs and benchmarks

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Ryzen 5 3500X
2019
6 cores / 6 threads, 65 Watt
8.29

Ryzen 5 3500X provides acceptable benchmark performance at 8.29% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started Ryzen 5 3500X sales 24 September 2019. This is a Matisse architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 6 threads, and is based on 7 nm, 12 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 4100 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM4 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR4 Dual-channel memory.

Primary details

Ryzen 5 3500X processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking918
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
SeriesAMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiency12.07of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameMatisse (2019−2020)
Release date24 September 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads6
Base clock speed3.6 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed4.1 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache96K (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512K (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache32 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography7 nm, 12 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Number of transistors4,800 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+
Unlocked multiplier+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 3500X compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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)of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketAM4
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 3500X. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI+
AVX+
Precision Boost 2+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 3500X's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory size128 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth51.196 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 5 3500X.

Integrated graphics card-

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 5 3500X. Overall benchmark performance 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 3500X 8.29

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 3500X 13163

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.

Ryzen 5 3500X 1579

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.

Ryzen 5 3500X 5927

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Ryzen 5 3500X's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Ryzen 5 2600 100.12
Ryzen 5 3500X 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 5 3500X is Core i5-11500T, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen 5 3500X:

Core i7-9700 100.97
Ryzen 5 3500X 100

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Recommended GPUs

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