AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i3-9300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 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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Intel Core i3-9300

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 242.53

$ 1215.47 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2% slightly better overall score

2299 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

4620 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

1653 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

1571 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

35.77 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

4025 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

1498 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.7 GHz

76% significantly 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

15 W

313% significantly lower TDP

62 W

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

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

660th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

9th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i3-9300 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500U performs better than the Core i3-9300. Despite this, the Core i3-9300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-9300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i3-9300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-9300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3500U has more L2 cache than the Core i3-9300. Despite this, the Core i3-9300 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U.

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