The same can be seen in case of the lenovo thinkpad lineup where the ryzen 5 3500u in the thinkpad e495 is much faster than the similarly priced core i5 8265u in the e490 and that too with a lower power draw.
Amd 2nd generation ryzen 5 3500u vs i5.
Instead you usually get better performance for cheaper.
For the purpose of this test we ve used two generations of the same device the lenovo ideapad 530s and the ideapad s540 respectively.
Acer aspire 5 slim laptop 15 6 full hd ips display amd ryzen 5 3500u vega 8 graphics 8gb ddr4 256gb ssd backlit keyboard windows 10 home a515 43 r5re silver 519 99 get the deal.
The ryzen 5 powered machine is the 15 6 inch acer swift 3 featuring an 8gb ram and a 1tb hdd.
This shows a minor difference in favor of the ryzen 5 3500u.
Based on 45 355 user benchmarks for the amd ryzen 5 3500u and the intel core i5 1035g1 we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 1 265 cpus.