Intel Core i5 1035G1 vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.0 GHz Intel Core i5 1035G1 with 4-cores against the 2.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with 6-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
NanoReview Final Score
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 4500U and 1035G1
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
  • More powerful Radeon RX Vega 6 integrated graphics: 1.2 vs 0.5 TFLOPS
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 10 nanometers
  • Has 2 MB larger L3 cache size
  • Newer - released 5 months later
  • 11% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4 GHz vs 3.6 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
4717
File compression 246.9 MB/sec 513.8 MB/sec
Clang compilation 17.3 Klines/sec 29.7 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 97.4 pages/sec 94.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 124.7 Mpixels/sec 138.8 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 148.9 pages/sec 129.8 pages/sec
Background blur 21.9 images/sec 26.6 images/sec
Photo processing 41.2 images/sec 45 images/sec
Ray tracing 5.64 Mpixels/sec 6.49 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 1124 & 978 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
2398
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
10637
Integer math 26.3 GOps/sec 30.7 GOps/sec
Floating point math 15.3 GOps/sec 21.5 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 19M Primes/sec 36M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 9.7M Strings/sec 14.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 4.1 GBytes/sec 6.6 GBytes/sec
Data compression 79.7 MBytes/sec 122.5 MBytes/sec
Physics 421 Frames/sec 520 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 5.5B Matrices/sec 10.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4787 & 2999 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
67.95

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 15.5 PPW 12.8 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 237 PPW 188.7 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 476.1 PPW 425.5 PPW
Blender / Watt 2.37 PPW 2.72 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i5 1035G1
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-18 (duckng)Geekbench 6 CPU1530 / 4445
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-22 (bingus)Geekbench 6 CPU1495 / 3495
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-15 (Adam)Geekbench 6 CPU746 / 2604
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
No benchmark results yet

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i5 1035G1 and AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released August 1, 2019 January 6, 2020
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Ice Lake Zen 2 (Renoir)
Model number i5-1035G1 -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics G1 Radeon RX Vega 6
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i5 1035G7
Successor - - AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#170th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 6
P-Threads 8 6
Base Frequency (P) 1.0 GHz 2.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 3.6 GHz 4 GHz
Total
Total Cores 4 6
Total Threads 8 6
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 10x 23x
Bus Bandwidth 4 GT/s -
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 32K (per core)
L2 Cache 256K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 6MB (shared) 8MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 10 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 15 W 10-25 W (configurable)
Socket BGA-1526 FP6
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 105Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics G1 Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1050 MHz 1500 MHz
Shading Units 256 384
TMUs 16 24
ROPs 8 8
Execution Units 32 6
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
0.5 TFLOPS
1.2 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-3733
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 68.27 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i5 1035G1 official page AMD Ryzen 5 4500U official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes - 16

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