AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
0.46% slightly better overall score
3472 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
5565 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
2824 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
2709 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
69.25 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
56% significantly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 1,089
487th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2020 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Ryzen 5 4500U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 3100 beats the Ryzen 5 4500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 4500U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3100. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3100. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3100 has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4500U. The Ryzen 5 4500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 3100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 4500U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3100. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3100 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 4500U.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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