AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Core i5-8259U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 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

3069 points
27% slightly better overall score
2416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4852 points
15% slightly better gaming score
4204 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2533 points
31% slightly better multitasking score
1922 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2427 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score
1847 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.00 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
65.05 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

5522 points
37% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
4025 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3526 points
4030 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1224 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1206 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3621 points
4117 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1212 points
1241 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
Identical
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
86% significantly lower TDP
28 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
Identical
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

531st of 1,089
641st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Core i5-8259U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 5300U is faster than the Core i5-8259U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8259U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 5300U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8259U 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 3 5300U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 5300U.

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.

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