AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Core i7 X 990 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 X 990 beats the Ryzen 3 5300U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5300U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 5300U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7 X 990 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 5300U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more L2 cache than 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.