AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 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

4180 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5963 points

5% slightly better gaming score

5656 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3276 points

3723 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3146 points

3608 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.79 points

100.46 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5686 points

5751 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1740 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1605 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5405 points

5709 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1769 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1617 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

73% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

Identical

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

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

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

440th of 1,089

422nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 5300G vs Ryzen 5 5600U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600U 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600U 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600U 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5300G. The Ryzen 5 5600U 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.