AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Core i9-11900KF. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 3000 Intel Core i 11000
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Core i9
• Generation
  3 11
• Predecessor
  - Intel Core i9-10900KF
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - Intel Core i9-12900KF

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.6 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 8
• CPU Threads
  6 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.1 GHz 5.3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  4 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 4.8 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU None
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -
• Graphics verification source
  - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000058487/processors.html

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i9-11900KF and AMD Ryzen 5 3500. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200
• PCIe lanes
  20 20
• PCIe version
  4.0 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 3500 and Intel Core i9-11900KF Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 125 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - 251 W / 56 s
• TDP down
  - 95 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 3500 and Intel Core i9-11900KF, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Matisse (Zen 2) Rocket Lake S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  - 4 MB
• L3-Cache
  32 MB 16 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2019 Q1/2021
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 1200
• Technology
  7 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d