AMD Ryzen 3 2300X vs Intel Core i5-8350U

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2740 points

41% slightly better overall score

1943 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5046 points

54% significantly better gaming score

3266 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2093 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

1565 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2009 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

1497 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.81 points

41.73 points

10% slightly higher Blender 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

105% significantly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

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

Identical

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

581st of 1,089

728th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 2300X vs Core i5-8350U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 2300X is faster than the Core i5-8350U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-8350U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 2300X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8350U. Also, the Ryzen 3 2300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8350U outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 2300X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 2300X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8350U. The Ryzen 3 2300X 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 2300X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.