Very short answer: no.
You might think that layer-3 switches perform bridging and routing, while routers do only routing. That hasn’t been the case at least since Cisco introduced Integrated Routing and Bridging in IOS release 11.2 more than 15 years ago. However, Simon Gordon raised an interesting point in a tweet: “I thought IP L3 switching includes switching within subnet based on IP address, routing is between subnets only.”
Layer-3 switches and routers definitely have to perform some intra-subnet layer-3 functions, but they’re usually not performing any intra-subnet L3 forwarding.
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