Intel Core i5-9500 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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$ 149.00

$ 59.40

$ 89.60 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3906 points

0.36% slightly better overall score

3892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6425 points

1% slightly better gaming score

6333 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3132 points

3162 points

0.96% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3003 points

3035 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

95.73 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

80.44 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4973 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4865 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1468 points

1512 points

2% 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

3 GHz

3.80 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

10% 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

441st 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 May

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 i5-9500 vs Ryzen 3 4100 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9500 beats the Ryzen 3 4100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 4100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-9500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 4100 has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 4100 has more threads than the Core i5-9500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-9500. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 4100 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9500. Despite this, the Core i5-9500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 4100.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.