AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs AMD Ryzen 5 1600

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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
4496 points
46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4852 points
6035 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2533 points
3997 points
57% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2427 points
3874 points
59% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.00 points
100.47 points
49% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

5522 points
6468 points
17% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3526 points
4485 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1224 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1048 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3621 points
4641 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1212 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1085 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.2 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

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
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
576 KiB
125% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

531st of 1,089
390th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Ryzen 5 1600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600 is faster than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 5300U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 1600 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5300U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 1600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 5 1600 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5300U. The Ryzen 5 1600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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