AMD Ryzen 3 2300X vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 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

16% slightly better overall score

2357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5046 points

32% slightly better gaming score

3808 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2093 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

1930 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2009 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1850 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.81 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

37.23 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3074 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2457 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

992 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

862 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3341 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2505 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1214 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

875 points

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

66% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 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

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

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

581st of 1,089

650th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 3 2300X vs Ryzen 5 3500U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 2300X beats the Ryzen 5 3500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 2300X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Ryzen 3 2300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 3500U 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, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 3 2300X 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 2300X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.