amd ryzen 3 5300u vs intel core i5 8250u

VS

We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 3 5300U (Laptop) 4-cores against Intel Core i5 8250U (Laptop) 4-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between AMD Ryzen 3 5300U and Intel Core i5 8250U
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 3 5300U
  • Newer released 4 years later
  • 11% higher Turbo Boost frequency (3.8 GHz vs 3.4 GHz)
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-3200 RAM
Advantages of Intel Core i5 8250U
  • Newer released 2017 years later
  • Has 2 MB larger L3 cache size

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
4657
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
2400
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
10076
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
3773

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 3 5300u and core i5 8250u

General

AMD Ryzen 3 5300U Intel Core i5 8250U
Vendor AMD Intel
Released January 7 2021 August 21 2017
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Lucienne U Kaby Lake Refresh
Socket FP6 FC-BGA1356
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) Intel UHD Graphics 620

Performance

AMD Ryzen 3 5300U Intel Core i5 8250U
Cores 4 4
Threads 8 8
Base Frequency 2.6 GHz 1.6 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 3.8 GHz 3.4 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
L3 Cache 4 MB (shared) 6 MB (shared)

Power

AMD Ryzen 3 5300U Intel Core i5 8250U
Fabrication process 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 W 15 W
Max. temperature 105°C 100°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 3 5300U Intel Core i5 8250U
Memory types DDR4-3200 DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133
Memory Size 64 GB 32 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 37.5 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 3 5300U Intel Core i5 8250U
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) Intel UHD Graphics 620
GPU Base Clock MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.1 MHz
Shading Units 384 192
TMUs 24 24
ROPs 8 3
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
TFLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 3 5300U Intel Core i5 8250U
Official site AMD Ryzen 3 5300U official page Intel Core i5 8250U official page
PCI Express Version 3 3
PCI Express Lanes 12

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i5 8250U or AMD Ryzen 3 5300U?