AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs Intel Core i7-10700

Ryzen 3 5300G vs Core i7-10700 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-10700 performs better than the Ryzen 3 5300G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 5300G in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10700 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5300G. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5300G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 5300G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700. Despite this, the Core i7-10700 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-10700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 5300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.