AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs Intel Core i5-12400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-12400F

Price

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$ 84.99

$ 95.00 significantly less expensive

$ 179.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3909 points

7069 points

80% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5963 points

9794 points

64% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3276 points

6210 points

89% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3146 points

6009 points

91% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.79 points

159.61 points

79% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5686 points

8804 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1740 points

2154 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5405 points

9125 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1769 points

2218 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

480 KiB

87% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

18 MiB

125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

440th of 1,089

188th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 5300G vs Core i5-12400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400F 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 i5-12400F has significantly more cores with 6 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 i5-12400F. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.