AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Core i5-11400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th 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
$ 30.09 slightly less expensive
$ 150.09

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3954 points
5669 points
43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points
8320 points
30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points
4844 points
49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points
4676 points
50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5061 points
5719 points
13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points
128.47 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points
7380 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points
1895 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points
7590 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points
1979 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
46% significantly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.4 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,089
277th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 3300X vs Core i5-11400F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11400F beats the Ryzen 3 3300X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3300X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-11400F 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400F. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F 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.

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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