AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 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
3411 points
11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4852 points
5261 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2533 points
2847 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2427 points
2733 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.00 points
68.88 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3526 points
3543 points
0.48% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1224 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1107 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3621 points
3624 points
0.08% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1212 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1137 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
3.7 GHz
42% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.2 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

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
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
Identical
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

531st of 1,089
495th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2019 July

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 3400G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3400G beats the Ryzen 3 5300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 5300U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 3400G CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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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