Ryzen 5 3500U vs Ryzen 7 3750H

Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 7 3750H
2019
4 cores / 8 threads, 35 Watt
5.10
+17%
Ryzen 5 3500U
2019
4 cores / 8 threads, 15 Watt
4.36

Ryzen 7 3750H outperforms Ryzen 5 3500U by a moderate 17% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 7 3750H and Ryzen 5 3500U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking12181359
Place by popularitynot in top-10032
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Ryzen 7AMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiency13.7927.51
Architecture codenamePicasso (Zen+) (2019)Picasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 7 3750H 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads88
Base clock speed2.3 GHz2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed4 GHz3.7 GHz
Bus typePCIe 3.0PCIe 3.0
Multiplier2321
L1 cache384 KB384 KB
L2 cache2 MB2 MB
L3 cache4 MB (shared)4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography12 nm12 nm
Die size209.78 mm2209.78 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C105 °C
Number of transistors4940 Million4940 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 7 3750H 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFP5FP5
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 7 3750H and Ryzen 5 3500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHAMMX, 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++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 7 3750H and Ryzen 5 3500U are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 7 3750H and Ryzen 5 3500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB64 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/s38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support++

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 ( - 1400 MHz)AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) ( - 1200 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 7 3750H and Ryzen 5 3500U.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes1212

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 7 3750H 5.10
+17%
Ryzen 5 3500U 4.36

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 7 3750H 8097
+16.8%
Ryzen 5 3500U 6931

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 7 3750H 990
+14.8%
Ryzen 5 3500U 862

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 7 3750H 3076
+23.9%
Ryzen 5 3500U 2482

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Ryzen 7 3750H 4770
+4.7%
Ryzen 5 3500U 4558

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Ryzen 7 3750H 20687
+20.1%
Ryzen 5 3500U 17231

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Ryzen 7 3750H 7431
+24.9%
Ryzen 5 3500U 5951

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Ryzen 7 3750H 7.44
+73.1%
Ryzen 5 3500U 12.88

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Ryzen 7 3750H 9
+20.9%
Ryzen 5 3500U 8

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Ryzen 7 3750H 734
+12.9%
Ryzen 5 3500U 650

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 7 3750H 144
+0.7%
Ryzen 5 3500U 143

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 7 3750H 1.64
Ryzen 5 3500U 1.65
+0.6%

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Ryzen 7 3750H 5
+13.6%
Ryzen 5 3500U 4.4

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Ryzen 7 3750H 2866
+16.7%
Ryzen 5 3500U 2455

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Ryzen 7 3750H 49
+23.9%
Ryzen 5 3500U 39

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Ryzen 7 3750H 139
+3.4%
Ryzen 5 3500U 135

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 7 3750H 3537
+12%
Ryzen 5 3500U 3157

Blender(-)

Ryzen 7 3750H 633
Ryzen 5 3500U 694
+9.6%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 7 3750H 874
Ryzen 5 3500U 902
+3.2%

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 7 3750H 3659
+3.4%
Ryzen 5 3500U 3538

7-Zip

Ryzen 7 3750H 18689
+9.8%
Ryzen 5 3500U 17025

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 7 3750H 153
+3.4%
Ryzen 5 3500U 148

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Ryzen 7 3750H 14749
+13.1%
Ryzen 5 3500U 13040

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Ryzen 7 3750H 3768
+9.5%
Ryzen 5 3500U 3443

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 5.10 4.36
Integrated graphics card 4.24 4.51
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

Ryzen 7 3750H has a 17% higher aggregate performance score.

Ryzen 5 3500U, on the other hand, has 6.4% faster integrated GPU, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 7 3750H is our recommended choice as it beats the Ryzen 5 3500U in performance tests.


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