AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs Intel Core i5-1240P

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 12 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
4218 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5963 points
6354 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3276 points
3645 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3146 points
3553 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.79 points
110.04 points
23% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
135% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 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
28 W
132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
960 KiB
274% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
5 MiB
150% 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
417th 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
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 5300G vs Core i5-1240P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5300G beats the Core i5-1240P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1240P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 5300G that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 5300G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1240P. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1240P outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 5300G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1240P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 5300G. The Core i5-1240P 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.

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