Ryzen 3 5300U vs Ryzen 3 4300U

Place in the ranking	1286	1095
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)	AMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000)
Power efficiency	17.73	38.57
Architecture codename	Renoir-U (Zen 2) (2020−2021)	Lucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021)
Release date	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)	12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 3 5300U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	4 (Quad-Core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	4	8
Base clock speed	2.7 GHz	2.6 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.7 GHz	3.8 GHz
Multiplier	27	26
L1 cache	128K (per core)	64K (per core)
L2 cache	512K (per core)	512K (per core)
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	7 nm	7 nm
Die size	156 mm²	156 mm²
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	105 °C
Number of transistors	9800 Million	9,800 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 3 5300U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	1	1
Socket	FP6	FP6
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 3 5300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	+	+
AVX	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 3 5300U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 3 5300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR4
Maximum memory size	64 GB	64 GB
Maximum memory bandwidth	68.27 GB/s	no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 ( - 1400 MHz)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) ( - 1500 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 3 5300U.

PCIe version	3.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	12

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 3 4300U 4.68

Ryzen 3 5300U 6.11
+30.6%

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Ryzen 3 4300U 7438

Ryzen 3 5300U 9700
+30.4%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Ryzen 3 4300U 1267
+4.3%

Ryzen 3 5300U 1215

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Ryzen 3 4300U 3396

Ryzen 3 5300U 3611
+6.3%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Ryzen 3 4300U 6068

Ryzen 3 5300U 7931
+30.7%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Ryzen 3 4300U 563

Ryzen 3 5300U 906
+61.1%

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 3 4300U 164

Ryzen 3 5300U 170
+3.7%

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Ryzen 3 4300U 3.2

Ryzen 3 5300U 5.1
+59.4%

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Ryzen 3 4300U 2397

Ryzen 3 5300U 2551
+6.4%