AMD Ryzen 3 4300G vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 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
$ 540.44 significantly less expensive
$ 687.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3697 points
3900 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6008 points
3% slightly better gaming score
5787 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3016 points
3361 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points
3239 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
73.73 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% 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
192% significantly higher clock speed
1.3 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
800 KiB
212% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
2.5 MiB
25% slightly more L2 cache

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
442nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop
12th Generation Core i5

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 i5-1235U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 4300G beats the Core i5-1235U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. The Core i5-1235U 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. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1235U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 4300G. The Core i5-1235U 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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