AMD Ryzen 3 4300GE vs Intel Core i5-8279U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 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

3645 points

49% significantly better overall score

2436 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6002 points

64% significantly better gaming score

3645 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2952 points

42% slightly better multitasking score

2073 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2834 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

2006 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.65 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

58.56 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

28 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

469th of 1,089

640th 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

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 4300GE vs Core i5-8279U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 4300GE is faster than the Core i5-8279U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8279U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4300GE has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8279U. The Core i5-8279U outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 4300GE thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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