AMD Ryzen 3 2300X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

3147 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5046 points

1% slightly better gaming score

4989 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2093 points

2595 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2009 points

2494 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.81 points

64.47 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3341 points

3685 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1214 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1171 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

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.3 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

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

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 3 2300X vs Ryzen 5 7520U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 2300X beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 7520U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 2300X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U 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. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 3 2300X 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 2300X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.