AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Core i5-9300H

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Core i5-9300H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5300U beats the Core i5-9300H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-9300H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i5-9300H. Despite this, the Core i5-9300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-9300H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.