AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Core i3-8300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i3 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 417.00
$ 135.00
$ 282.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2653 points
4% slightly better overall score
2527 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points
4721 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
1919 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score
1841 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3185 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3086 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

955 points
957 points
0.21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3133 points
3827 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points
1328 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.7 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
62 W
4% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

601st of 1,089
621st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
8th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Core i3-8300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1400 beats the Core i3-8300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8300 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1400. The Core i3-8300 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1400 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8300. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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