AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs Intel Core i3-9300

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i3 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-9300

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 162.54 significantly less expensive

$ 242.53

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points

2299 points

0.31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points

4620 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1653 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1571 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

35.77 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points

4025 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

1498 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.7 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.3 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

62 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089

660th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

9th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Core i3-9300 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-9300 performs better than the Ryzen 3 1200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 1200 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-9300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 1200. Also, the Core i3-9300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-9300 outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 1200 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 1200 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-9300. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.