AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i7-980

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket FP5 Intel Socket 1366
Foundry GlobalFoundries Intel
Process size 12 nm 32 nm
Transistors 4,940 million 1,170 million
Die size 210 mm² 239 mm²
Package FP5 FC-LGA10
tJMax 105°C

Performance

Frequency 2.1 GHz 3.333 GHz
Turbo clock up to 3.7 GHz up to 3.6 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 21.0x 25.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
TDP 15 W 130 W
Voltage 1.3 V

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Mobile Desktop
Production status Active End-of-life
Release date Jan 6th, 2019 Jun 26th, 2011
Codename Picasso Gulftown
Generation Ryzen 5 Core i7
Part YM3500C4T4MFG SLBYU
Memory support DDR4 Dual-channel DDR3 Triple-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 3 Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores 4 6
Total Threads 8 12
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics Radeon Vega 8

Cache

Cache L1 96K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 4MB (shared) 12MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

AES Yes
AMD-V Yes
AMD64 Yes
AVX Yes
AVX2 Yes
BMI1 Yes
BMI2 Yes
EVP Yes
F16C Yes
FMA3 Yes
HTT Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
Precision Boost Yes
SHA Yes
SMAP Yes
SMEP Yes
SMT Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.1 Yes
SSE4.2 Yes Yes
SSE4A Yes
SSSE3 Yes

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