AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i3-10300

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i3-10300 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600U performs better than the Core i3-10300. Despite this, the Core i3-10300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600U has significantly more cores than the Core i3-10300. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-10300. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10300. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-10300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-10300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 5600U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-10300. The Ryzen 5 5600U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.