Product Compare

Intel Core i5 8279U vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

	CPU Intel Core i5 8279U	CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3500X
General Parameters
Release Date	May 2019	Sep 2019
Manufacturer	Intel	AMD
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64
Core Architecture	Coffee Lake	Matisse
Processor Number	i5-8279U
Integrated Graphics	Iris Plus Graphics 655	N/A
Generation		Ryzen 5 (Zen 2 (Matisse))
Package
Manufacturing Process	14 nm	7 nm
Socket	BGA-1528	AMD Socket AM4
Power Consumption	28 W	65 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100 °C	95 °C
Transistor Count		3.8 billions
Foundry		TSMC
Die Size		74 mm²
I/O Process Size		12 nm
I/O Die Size		124 mm²
Package		µOPGA-1331
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	4
Performance Core Threads	8
Performance Core Base Frequency	2.4 GHz	3.6 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.1 GHz	4.1 GHz
Total Core Count	4	6
Total Thread Count	8	6
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	24x	36.0
L1 Cache	32 K per core	64 KB per core
L2 Cache	256 K per core	512 KB per core
L3 Cache	6 MB shared	32 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	Yes
SMP		1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133	DDR4-3200
Max Memory Size	32 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	37.5 GB/s	51.2 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true
GPU Base Frequency	300 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1150 MHz
Shader Units	384
Texture Units	48
Raster Operation Units	6
Execution Units	48
Power Consumption	15 W
Max Resolution	4096x2304 - 60 Hz
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	3.0	4
PCIe Lanes	16	24
Extended Instruction Set	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1085	1166
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	4440	6717
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1313	1650
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	4465	6523