AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Core i5-8279U

Ryzen 3 3300X vs Core i5-8279U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 3300X beats the Core i5-8279U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8279U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores 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 i5-8279U. Also, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8279U 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.

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.