AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Core i5-8259U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 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

3954 points
63% significantly better overall score
2416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points
51% significantly better gaming score
4204 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points
68% significantly better multitasking score
1922 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points
68% significantly better heavy workload score
1847 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points
33% slightly higher Blender score
65.05 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4030 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1206 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4117 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1241 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
65% significantly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
28 W
132% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
Identical
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,089
641st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

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 i5-8259U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 3300X beats the Core i5-8259U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8259U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 3300X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8259U. Also, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8259U outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 3300X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8259U. The Ryzen 3 3300X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3300X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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