AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Ryzen 3 7320U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 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

3338 points

14% slightly better overall score

2905 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

14% slightly better gaming score

4530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

2414 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

2315 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

42.57 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3589 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

1176 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.1 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

Identical

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

550th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Ryzen 3 7320U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1500X performs better than the Ryzen 3 7320U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 7320U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 7320U. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 1500X 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 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.