AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Core i3-10300

Ryzen 5 3500 vs Core i3-10300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500 beats the Core i3-10300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3500 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-10300. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-10300. Despite this, the Core i3-10300 has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 3500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-10300. The Ryzen 5 3500 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.