AMD Ryzen 3 1300X vs Intel Core i5-8265U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 249.99
$ 1674.94 significantly less expensive
$ 1924.93

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2517 points
15% slightly better overall score
2174 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4619 points
21% slightly better gaming score
3802 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1924 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
1707 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1846 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score
1627 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.09 points
33% slightly higher Blender score
36.15 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3486 points
3500 points
0.40% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3018 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2272 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1039 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
720 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
118% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
3.9 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
33% slightly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

624th of 1,089
688th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2018 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 1300X vs Core i5-8265U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 1300X performs better than the Core i5-8265U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8265U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-8265U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 1300X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8265U. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8265U outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 1300X thanks to a significantly 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 1300X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8265U. The Ryzen 3 1300X also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1300X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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