AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U vs AMD EPYC 9654

Last updated: 2024-04-12

CPU comparison with benchmarks


AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U		AMD EPYC 9654
CPU comparison AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U or AMD EPYC 9654 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has 4 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.70 GHz. Up to 32 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U was released in Q1/2019. The AMD EPYC 9654 has 96 cores with 192 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.70 GHz. The CPU supports up to 6144 GB of memory in 12 memory channels. The AMD EPYC 9654 was released in Q4/2022.

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO (28)	Family	AMD EPYC (129)
AMD Ryzen 3000U (10)	CPU group	AMD EPYC 9004 (21)
2	Generation	4
Picasso (Zen+)	Architecture	Genoa / Genoa-X (Zen 4)
Mobile	Segment	Desktop / Server
--	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	AMD EPYC 9655

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.10 GHz (3.70 GHz). The AMD EPYC 9654 has 96 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 2.40 GHz (3.70 GHz).
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U	Characteristic	AMD EPYC 9654
4	Cores	96
8	Threads	192
normal	Core architecture	normal
Yes	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	No
2.10 GHz	Frequency	2.40 GHz
3.70 GHz	Turbo Frequency (1 Core)	3.70 GHz
3.00 GHz	Turbo Frequency (All Cores)	3.55 GHz


NPU AI performance The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U	Characteristic	AMD EPYC 9654
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--
--	NPU + CPU + iGPU	--

Integrated graphics (iGPU) The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Raven Ridge)	GPU	no iGPU
1.20 GHz	GPU frequency	--
--	GPU (Turbo)	--
8	GPU Generation	--
14 nm	Technology
3	Max. displays
8	Compute units	--
512	Shader	--
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
2 GB	Max. GPU Memory	--
12	DirectX Version	--

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Raven Ridge)	GPU	no iGPU
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP9	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	No
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	No
Decode	Codec VC-1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	No

Memory & PCIe The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U supports a maximum of 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD EPYC 9654 can connect up to 6144 GB of memory in 12 memory channels.
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U	Characteristic	AMD EPYC 9654
DDR4-2400	Memory	DDR5-4800
32 GB	Max. Memory	6144 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	12
38.4 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	460.8 GB/s
Yes	ECC	Yes
--	L2 Cache	96.00 MB
4.00 MB	L3 Cache	384.00 MB
3.0	PCIe version	5.0
12	PCIe lanes	128
11.8 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	504.1 GB/s
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has a TDP of 15 W, that of the AMD EPYC 9654 is 360 W.
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U	Characteristic	AMD EPYC 9654
15 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	360 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
35 W	TDP up	400 W
12 W	TDP down	320 W
95 °C	Tjunction max.	100 °C
Technical details The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has a 4.00 MB cache, while the AMD EPYC 9654 cache has a total of 480.00 MB.

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U	Characteristic	AMD EPYC 9654
12 nm	Technology	5 nm
Chiplet	Chip design	Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3	ISA extensions	SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512, BFLOAT16, VNNI
FP5	Socket	SP5
AMD-V, SVM	Virtualization	AMD-V, SVM
Yes	AES-NI	Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Operating systems	Windows Server 2022, Linux, Windows 11
Q1/2019	Release date	Q4/2022
--	Release price	11805 $

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U (48%)

AMD EPYC 9654 (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U (5%)

AMD EPYC 9654 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	727 (48%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz	1529 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	2579 (3%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.55 GHz	79486 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	7020 (6%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.55 GHz	126082 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	53 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	228 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	876 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	3544 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.55 GHz	0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz	2025 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.55 GHz	23214 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	360 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	1483 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.55 GHz	0 (0%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.20 GHz	1229 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 @ 0.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	33 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.55 GHz	0 (0%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	574.1 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.55 GHz	0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 2.10 GHz	1636 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	141 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	620 (100%)
	AMD EPYC 9654 96C 192T @ 3.55 GHz	0 (0%)

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