AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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
$ 86.00 significantly less expensive
$ 170.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3909 points
5776 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5963 points
6952 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3276 points
5375 points
64% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3146 points
5256 points
67% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.79 points
149.45 points
68% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5686 points
6148 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1740 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1232 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5405 points
6111 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1769 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1254 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.35 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
768 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% 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
271st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2018 April

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 7 2700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 2700X 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 5300G has 4 cores. 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 Ryzen 7 2700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300G CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 2700X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5300G. The Ryzen 7 2700X 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.

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