Silently AMD expanded their Ryzen 3000 line-up this week, exclusively in Chinafor the time being. Ryzen 5 3500X has been benchmarked. The non SMT Ryzen 5 is compared with Intel's Core i5 9400F - who is in the lead in the price range up to 150 Euro?

The setup used is an MSI B450M Mortar Titanium (AMD), an MSI B360M Mortar Titanium (Intel) and both got 2x8 GB DDR4-3200. In all tested office workloads, the six-core (six threads, no virtual core doubling, AMD SMT) is ahead of the i5 9400F, which also has six cores and no Intel Hyper-Threading. Have a peek below and click on the thumbnails, they also threw in a Ryxen 5 3600 to compare with.

Proc Cores/Threads base/Boost L3 cache PCI-E PCI-E line DDR4 TDP Cooler Ryzen 9 3950X 16/32 4.7/3.5GHz 64MB 4.0 16+4+4 3200MHz 105W Prism Ryzen 9 3900X 12/24 4.6/3.8GHz 64MB 4.0 16+4+4 3200MHz 105W Prism Ryzen 7 3800X 8/16 4.5/3.9GHz 32MB 4.0 16+4+4 3200MHz 105W Prism Ryzen 7 3700X 8/16 4.4/3.6GHz 32MB 4.0 16+4+4 3200MHz 65W Prism Ryzen 5 3600X 6/12 4.4/3.8GHz 32MB 4.0 16+4+4 3200MHz 95W Spire Ryzen 5 3600 6/12 4.2/3.6GHz 32MB 4.0 16+4+4 3200MHz 65W Stealth Ryzen 5 3500X 6/6 4.1/3.6GHz 32MB 4.0 16+4+4 3200MHz 65W Stealth Ryzen 5 3400G 4/8 4.2/3.7GHz 4MB 3.0 8+4+4 2933MHz 65W Spire Ryzen 3 3200G 4/4 4.0/3.6GHz 4MB 3.0 8+4+4 2933MHz 65W Stealth





