AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i3-8300

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i3-8300 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i3-8300 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8300. Both the Ryzen 9 5900X and Core i3-8300 have the same clock speed. The Core i3-8300 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X thanks to a 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 9 5900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8300. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.