AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 1) 10 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

3909 points

4342 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5963 points

7190 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3276 points

3534 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3146 points

3381 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.79 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

85.75 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5405 points

7114 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1769 points

2111 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

185% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

6.5 MiB

224% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

440th of 1,089

407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop

Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 5300G vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 5 120U is faster than the Ryzen 3 5300G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 5300G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 5300G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 5300G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U. In terms of cache, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 5300G. The Core 5 120U 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 5300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.