AMD Ryzen 3 3300U vs Intel Core i5-2500K

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

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Price

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$ 1443.00

$ 133.55

$ 1309.45 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2250 points

2325 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4104 points

4281 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1718 points

1776 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1647 points

1704 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.71 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

34.51 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

672nd of 1,089

654th of 1,089

Family

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Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 3300U vs Core i5-2500K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2500K performs better than the Ryzen 3 3300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3300U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3300U. Also, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2500K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Ryzen 3 3300U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.