AMD Ryzen 3 2300U vs AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1981 points

3338 points

68% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3542 points

5184 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1521 points

2778 points

82% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1456 points

2668 points

83% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2097 points

3735 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

809 points

1114 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2768 points

3681 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

952 points

1109 points

16% 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

2 GHz

3.5 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.7 GHz

8% 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

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

4 MiB

16 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

723rd of 1,089

499th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 2300U vs Ryzen 5 1500X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1500X 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 2300U. Also, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 2300U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 1500X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 1500X also has significantly 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 2300U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.