AMD Ryzen 3 1300X vs AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

Price

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$ 249.99

$ 79.99

$ 170.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2517 points

3338 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4619 points

5184 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1924 points

2778 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1846 points

2668 points

44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.09 points

64.62 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3486 points

4608 points

32% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3018 points

3735 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1039 points

1114 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3124 points

3681 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points

1109 points

0.82% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

Identical

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

Identical

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

631st of 1,099

506th of 1,099

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 1300X vs Ryzen 5 1500X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1500X is faster than the Ryzen 3 1300X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 1300X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads. Both the Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 5 1500X have the same clock speed. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 1500X also has significantly more 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 1300X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.