AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs Intel Core i7-8700

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 84.99
$ 65.26 significantly less expensive
$ 150.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3909 points
4771 points
22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5963 points
6744 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3276 points
4149 points
26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3146 points
4005 points
27% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.79 points
109.37 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5686 points
5865 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1740 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1478 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5405 points
5964 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1769 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1536 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.6 GHz
9% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

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
368th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

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 i7-8700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700 beats the Ryzen 3 5300G in overall performance. 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 i7-8700 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 5300G has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 5300G.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 5300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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