AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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
5776 points
88% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4852 points
6952 points
43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2533 points
5375 points
112% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2427 points
5256 points
116% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.00 points
149.45 points
123% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3526 points
6148 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1224 points
1232 points
0.65% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3621 points
6111 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1212 points
1254 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

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
4.35 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
599% significantly lower TDP
105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
768 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% 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
271st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2018 April

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 7 2700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700X 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 2700X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5300U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Also, the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 2700X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 7 2700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5300U. The Ryzen 7 2700X 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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