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Intel Core i3 1215U vs AMD Ryzen 3 5300U

42 out of 100
Intel Core i3 1215U
VS
34 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 3 5300U
Intel Core i3 1215U
AMD Ryzen 3 5300U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.2 GHz Intel Core i3 1215U with 6-cores against the 2.6 GHz AMD Ryzen 3 5300U with 4-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments (3)

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 5300U and 1215U
Advantages of Intel Core i3 1215U
  • Has 6 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR5-4800 RAM
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • 49% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2184 vs 1467 points
  • Newer PCI Express version โ€“ 4.0
  • Newer - released 1 year and 1 month later
  • 16% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.4 GHz vs 3.8 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 3 5300U
  • More modern manufacturing process โ€“ 7 versus 10 nanometers

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core i3 1215U
vs
Ryzen 3 5300U

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Core i3 1215U +49%
2184
Ryzen 3 5300U
1467
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core i3 1215U +27%
5662
Ryzen 3 5300U
4455
File compression 356.7 MB/sec 363 MB/sec
Clang compilation 45.1 Klines/sec 30 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 117.1 pages/sec 86.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 180.5 Mpixels/sec 138.7 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 224.7 pages/sec 125.9 pages/sec
Background blur 18.9 images/sec 26.3 images/sec
Photo processing 54.2 images/sec 41.6 images/sec
Ray tracing 9.45 Mpixels/sec 7.05 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] โ€“ 1106 & 623 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Core i3 1215U +35%
3101
Ryzen 3 5300U
2289
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Core i3 1215U +10%
10106
Ryzen 3 5300U
9226
Integer math 34.4 GOps/sec 28.8 GOps/sec
Floating point math 24.6 GOps/sec 17.1 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 30M Primes/sec 18M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 12.7M Strings/sec 13.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 6.8 GBytes/sec 7.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 113.1 MBytes/sec 125.2 MBytes/sec
Physics 546 Frames/sec 409 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 6.7B Matrices/sec 8.1B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] โ€“ 3915 & 1371 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core i3 1215U
58.9
Ryzen 3 5300U +1%
59.58

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 18.9 PPW 10 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 377.5 PPW 178.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 673.7 PPW 369 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.93 PPW 2.38 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i3 1215U
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-04-11 (Shanmukh)GeekBench2126 / 6248
๐Ÿ“˜ 2023-11-06 (goryn81)Cinebench 202489 / 283
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AMD Ryzen 3 5300U
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i3 1215U and AMD Ryzen 3 5300U

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released February 23, 2022 January 12, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake Zen 2 (Lucienne)
Model number i3-1215U -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics (64EU) Radeon RX Vega 6
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i5 1135G7
Successor - Intel Core 3 100U -
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#172nd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 2 4
P-Threads 4 8
Base Frequency (P) 1.2 GHz 2.6 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.4 GHz 3.8 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 0.9 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.3 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 6 4
Total Threads 8 8
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 12x 26x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 1280K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 10MB (shared) 4MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 10 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 12-15 W (configurable) 10-25 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 55 W -
Socket BGA-1744 FP6
Peak Temperature 100ยฐC 105ยฐC

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics (64EU) Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1100 MHz 1500 MHz
Shading Units 512 384
TMUs 32 24
ROPs 16 8
Execution Units 64 6
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core i3 1215U
1.1 TFLOPS
Ryzen 3 5300U +9%
1.2 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon RX Vega 6 compared to UHD Graphics (64 EU)

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-4800
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR5-5200
- LPDDR4x-4267		 - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i3 1215U official page AMD Ryzen 3 5300U official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 12

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Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 3 5300U or Intel Core i3 1215U?
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Invidere January 16, 2023 at 04:03 PM
i3-1215U's iGPU drivers seem to be less optimized even though in benchmarks it's on par with RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 7 4xxx-5xxx iGPU), so Ryzen 3 5300U with RX Vega 6 may give better performance in several games (as of now).
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Jarot March 25, 2022 at 04:47 PM
I'm sorry, at intel ark core i3 1215u only have 2P-core and 4e-core so it has 8 threads only, thank you
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Sergey March 26, 2022 at 02:35 PM
Sorry for disinformation, specs updated.
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