Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  6 2
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 855/860 AMD Ryzen 3000U
• Predecessor
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ --

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.

• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 2.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.96 GHz 3.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 8
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) normal
• A core
  1x Kryo 485 Prime --
• B core
  3x Kryo 485 Gold --
• C core
  4x Kryo 485 Silver --

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
  Qualcomm Adreno 640 AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  0.25 GHz 1.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.68 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  4 8
• Shader
  384 512
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  1 3
• Generation
  5 8
• DirectX Version
  12.0 12
• Technology
  7 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2019 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
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U and Qualcomm Snapdragon 860. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-2133 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 32 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  4 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 and AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W
• TDP up
  -- 35 W
• TDP down
  -- 12 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 860, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  3.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kryo 485 Picasso (Zen+)
• Technology
  7 nm 12 nm
• Socket
  N/A FP5
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q1/2019
• Part Number
  SM8150-AC --