AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs Intel Core i7-5930K

Ryzen 3 5300G vs Core i7-5930K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5300G beats the Core i7-5930K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5930K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-5930K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5300G. Indeed, the Core i7-5930K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5300G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 5300G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5930K. Also, the Ryzen 3 5300G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5930K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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.