AMD Ryzen 7 6800H vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Ryzen AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 6000H AMD Ryzen 3000
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Generation
  5 3
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 7 5800H AMD Ryzen 5 2500X

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Frequency
  3.20 GHz 3.60 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.70 GHz 4.10 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes

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
  AMD Radeon RX 680M no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  2.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  12
• Shader
  768
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• Technology
  6 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2022

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 3500X and AMD Ryzen 7 6800H. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR5-4800LPDDR5-6400
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 6800H and AMD Ryzen 5 3500X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  45 W 65 W
• TDP up
  54 W --
• Tjunction max.
  105 °C 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 6800H and AMD Ryzen 7 6800H, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  16.00 MB 32.00 MB
• Architecture
  Rembrandt (Zen 3+) Matisse (Zen 2)
• Technology
  6 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• Socket
  FP7 AM4
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q4/2019