AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Core i5-4200U

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Core i5-4200U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 5300U is faster than the Core i5-4200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 3 5300U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4200U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 5300U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4200U. Also, the Ryzen 3 5300U has a significantly 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.

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 5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.