Comparison of AMD Ryzen 5 3500X and Intel Core i5-9300HF

Attribute	AMD Ryzen 5 3500X ×	Intel Core i5-9300HF ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Ryzen	Intel Core i5
Model	AMD Ryzen 5 3500X	Intel Core i5-9300HF
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	6	4
Frequency (GHz)	3.6	2.4
CPU Threads	6	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	+
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.1	4.1
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	-	4
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	4	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	-	DDR4-2666LPDDR3-2133
Max. Memory (GB)	-	128
PCIe lanes	20	16
PCIe version	4.0	3.0
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2019	2019
Technology (Nm)	7	14
Socket	AM4	BGA 1440
Virtualization	amd-v sev	vt-d vt-x ept vt-xt-x
L3-Cache (MB)	32	8
Architecture	Zen 2	Coffee Lake
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	95	100
TDP down (W)	-	35
TDP (PL1) (W)	65	45
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	16,110	9,859
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,169	1,066
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	5,311	4,365
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	188	-
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,129	-
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	464	422
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	2,652	2,111