AMD Ryzen 5 7600 vs Intel Core i3-N300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i3 N-series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8046 points
198% significantly better overall score
2694 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10893 points
158% significantly better gaming score
4207 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7125 points
222% significantly better multitasking score
2212 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6898 points
229% significantly better heavy workload score
2094 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

199.23 points
387% significantly higher Blender score
40.90 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
375% significantly higher clock speed
0.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
34% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
7 W
828% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
100% significantly more memory channels
1

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

147th of 1,089
590th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5
Core i3 N-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 7600 vs Core i3-N300 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7600 performs better than the Core i3-N300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-N300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-N300 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600 that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600 has more threads than the Core i3-N300. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N300. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 7600 thanks to a 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 7600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-N300. The Ryzen 5 7600 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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