AMD Ryzen 3 2300U vs Intel Core i5-12400

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1981 points
7038 points
255% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3542 points
9694 points
173% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1521 points
6210 points
308% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1456 points
6013 points
312% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2097 points
8911 points
324% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

809 points
2130 points
163% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2768 points
8875 points
220% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

952 points
2207 points
131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
2.5 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4.4 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
18 MiB
350% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

723rd of 1,089
190th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 3 2300U vs Core i5-12400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400 beats the Ryzen 3 2300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 2300U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12400 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 2300U. Indeed, the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 2300U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 2300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 2300U. Also, the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 2300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 2300U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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