Intel Core i5-9600 vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

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Price

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$ 288.36
$ 59.40
$ 228.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3841 points
3892 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6445 points
1% slightly better gaming score
6333 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3064 points
3162 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2938 points
3035 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

86.07 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
80.44 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5073 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4865 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1541 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1512 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.80 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
15% 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

2
Identical
2

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

463rd of 1,110
457th of 1,110

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

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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