AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i3-9300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 9th 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

$ 79.99
$ 162.54 significantly less expensive
$ 242.53

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
45% significantly better overall score
2299 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
12% slightly better gaming score
4620 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
68% significantly better multitasking score
1653 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
69% significantly better heavy workload score
1571 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
80% significantly higher Blender score
35.77 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
4025 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
1498 points
35% 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

3.5 GHz
3.7 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.3 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo 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

16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089
660th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
9th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2019 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 1500X vs Core i3-9300 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1500X performs better than the Core i3-9300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-9300 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-9300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Also, the Core i3-9300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-9300 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a slightly 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 5 1500X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-9300. The Ryzen 5 1500X 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 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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