AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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
$ 45.00 significantly less expensive
$ 129.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3909 points
4503 points
15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5963 points
6227 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3276 points
3971 points
21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3146 points
3849 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.79 points
139.64 points
57% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5686 points
7102 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1740 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1673 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5405 points
7245 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1769 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1728 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
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.5 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

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
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

440th of 1,089
389th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 3 5300G vs Ryzen 5 3600XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600XT 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5300G. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has 6 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 Ryzen 5 3600XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300G CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 3600XT CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 5 3600XT has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5300G. The Ryzen 5 3600XT 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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