AMD Ryzen 3 4300G vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 6 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

3697 points
12% slightly better overall score
3288 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6008 points
5% slightly better gaming score
5718 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3016 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
2595 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
2480 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
57.10 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
216% significantly higher clock speed
1.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.4 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
480 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4.5 MiB
125% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
10 MiB
150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

462nd of 1,089
501st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop
12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 4300G vs Core i3-1215U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 4300G beats the Core i3-1215U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1215U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 4300G has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4300G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1215U. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 4300G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-1215U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 4300G. The Core i3-1215U also has significantly 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 4300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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