AMD Ryzen 3 4300G vs Intel Core i5-10400

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 10th 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

$ 146.63
$ 24.45 slightly less expensive
$ 171.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3697 points
4799 points
29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6008 points
6712 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3016 points
4192 points
38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points
4056 points
39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points
113.95 points
51% significantly higher Blender 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
31% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.3 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
12 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

462nd of 1,089
367th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop
10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

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 i5-10400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10400 is faster than the Ryzen 3 4300G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 4300G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-10400 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 4300G that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4300G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 4300G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400. 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 4300G has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10400. Despite this, the Core i5-10400 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 4300G.

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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