AMD Ryzen 3 4300GE vs Intel Core i5-8500

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 768.00
$ 179.99
$ 588.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3752 points
0.67% slightly better overall score
3727 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5970 points
6054 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3086 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
3008 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2962 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
2885 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.65 points
83.18 points
12% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
3 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
85% significantly lower TDP
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
9 MiB
125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

476th of 1,118
480th of 1,118

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
2018 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 4300GE vs Core i5-8500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 4300GE beats the Core i5-8500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8500 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 4300GE. Indeed, the Core i5-8500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 4300GE. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 4300GE has more threads than the Core i5-8500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 4300GE has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 4300GE CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8500 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 4300GE has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 4300GE.

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.

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