AMD Ryzen 5 3450U vs Intel Core i3-N300

Ryzen 5 3450U vs Core i3-N300 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-N300 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3450U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3450U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-N300 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3450U has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3450U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N300. Despite this, the Core i3-N300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3450U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i3-N300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U. The Core i3-N300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3450U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.