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

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

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5300U beats the Core i5-5300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5300U 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 i5-5300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-5300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 5300U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-5300U. Also, the Ryzen 3 5300U has a slightly 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 5300U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-5300U. The Ryzen 3 5300U also has slightly 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 5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.