AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Core i5-10500

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 120.00
$ 39.00 significantly less expensive
$ 159.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3954 points
4526 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points
6446 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points
3934 points
21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points
3805 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5061 points
7252 points
43% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points
124.71 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5596 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1501 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5547 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1529 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

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

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,089
387th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 3300X vs Core i5-10500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10500 is faster than the Ryzen 3 3300X. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3300X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-10500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 3300X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3300X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10500. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 3300X has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10500. The Ryzen 3 3300X also has slightly 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3300X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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