AMD Ryzen 3 4300G vs Intel Core i9-9980HK

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i9 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

3697 points
3% slightly better overall score
3558 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6008 points
29% slightly better gaming score
4626 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3016 points
3403 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points
3616 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points
132.90 points
77% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
58% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
Identical
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

462nd of 1,089
480th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop
9th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 4300G vs Core i9-9980HK benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 4300G is faster than the Core i9-9980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9980HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9980HK has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 4300G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4300G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4300G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9980HK. The Core i9-9980HK 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-9980HK also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 4300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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