Intel Core i5-9400 vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Price

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$ 139.00

$ 59.40

$ 79.60 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3754 points

3892 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6091 points

6333 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3034 points

3162 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2911 points

3035 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.76 points

80.44 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4811 points

4865 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1393 points

1512 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3.80 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

2 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

125% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

455th of 1,089

443rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-9400 vs Ryzen 3 4100 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 4100 is faster than the Core i5-9400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-9400 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 4100 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 4100 has more threads than the Core i5-9400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9400. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 4100 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9400. Despite this, the Core i5-9400 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 4100.

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. For instance, the Core i5-9400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.