AMD Ryzen 3 1300X vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Price

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$ 249.99

$ 130.00

$ 119.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2517 points

4161 points

65% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4619 points

6597 points

42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1924 points

3390 points

76% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1846 points

3252 points

76% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.09 points

85.91 points

78% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3018 points

5905 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1039 points

1536 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3124 points

5889 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points

1572 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.1 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

32 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

624th of 1,089

423rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2019 September

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 3500X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500X 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 1300X has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 1300X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 1300X. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3500X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 1300X. The Ryzen 5 3500X 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.