Ryzen 3 4100 vs Ryzen 5 240 specs and performance
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 240 performs better than the Ryzen 3 4100. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 4100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 240 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 4100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 4100. Also, the Ryzen 5 240 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 240 outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 4100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 240 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 4100. The Ryzen 5 240 also has significantly more L3 cache.
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. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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