AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Core i5-8350U

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
57% significantly better overall score
1943 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4852 points
48% significantly better gaming score
3266 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2533 points
61% significantly better multitasking score
1565 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2427 points
62% significantly better heavy workload score
1497 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.00 points
60% significantly higher Blender score
41.73 points

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
52% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 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
728th 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
2017 August

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 i5-8350U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5300U beats the Core i5-8350U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 5300U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8350U. 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 5300U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8350U. Despite this, the Core i5-8350U 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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