AMD Ryzen 3 3300U vs Intel Core i5-8400

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1443.00
$ 169.99
$ 1273.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2250 points
3741 points
66% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4104 points
6024 points
46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1718 points
3030 points
76% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1647 points
2906 points
76% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.71 points
77.12 points
115% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.8 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4 GHz
14% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
9 MiB
125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

672nd of 1,089
456th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 3300U vs Core i5-8400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8400 is faster than the Ryzen 3 3300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3300U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-8400 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 3300U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3300U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3300U. Also, the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3300U has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8400. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 3300U.

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.

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