AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U 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 Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 5300U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5300U. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U also has significantly more 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.