AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i3-8300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 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

$ 1458.00
$ 135.00
$ 1323.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points
2527 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points
4721 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points
0.57% slightly better multitasking score
1919 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points
0.49% slightly better heavy workload score
1841 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points
3086 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points
957 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points
3827 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points
1328 points
51% significantly 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

2.1 GHz
3.7 GHz
76% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
313% significantly lower TDP
62 W

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

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089
621st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
8th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i3-8300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500U is faster than the Core i3-8300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8300 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-8300 CPU because of its significantly 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 3500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8300. Despite this, the Core i3-8300 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U.

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 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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