Intel Core i3-1215U vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Core i3 AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 1200P/1200U AMD Ryzen 3000U
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  12 2

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
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• Frequency
  1.20 GHz 2.10 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.40 GHz 3.70 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No

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
  Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake) AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  0.30 GHz 1.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  64 8
• Shader
  512 512
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  4 3
• Generation
  13 8
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q1/2018

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 3500U and Intel Core i3-1215U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i3-1215U and AMD Ryzen 5 3500U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP (PL2)
  55 W --
• TDP up
  -- 35 W
• TDP down
  -- 12 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i3-1215U and Intel Core i3-1215U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  4.50 MB --
• L3-Cache
  10.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Alder Lake U Picasso (Zen+)
• Technology
  10 nm 12 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Socket
  BGA 1744 FP5
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q1/2019