AMD Ryzen 3 4300G vs Intel Core i5-8600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-8600K

Price

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$ 146.63

$ 120.99

$ 25.64 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3697 points

4307 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6008 points

6905 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3016 points

3493 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points

3351 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points

89.16 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 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

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

9 MiB

125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

462nd of 1,089

408th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 4300G vs Core i5-8600K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8600K 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8600K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 4300G has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 4300G has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4300G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8600K. A Ryzen 3 4300G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 4300G.

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 4300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.