AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 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
7025 points
79% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5963 points
8549 points
43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3276 points
6518 points
98% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3146 points
6374 points
102% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.79 points
184.59 points
107% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5686 points
9429 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1740 points
1960 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5405 points
9459 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1769 points
1979 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
21% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.9 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
512 KiB
100% 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
192nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop
Ryzen 9 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 3 5300G vs Ryzen 9 6900HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 6900HX 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 5300G that 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 Ryzen 9 6900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HX 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 9 6900HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5300G. The Ryzen 9 6900HX 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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