AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 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
4283 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points
0.02% slightly better gaming score
6364 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points
3616 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points
3464 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points
0.43% slightly higher Blender score
86.75 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4973 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1368 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4938 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1356 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
89% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
512 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,089
411th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2020 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 3 3300X vs Ryzen 7 4700U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 4700U is faster than the Ryzen 3 3300X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3300X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 4700U has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3300X has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3300X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 4700U. Also, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 4700U 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 4700U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3300X. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3300X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 4700U.

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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