AMD Ryzen 3 4300G vs AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

Price

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$ 146.63

$ 97.99

$ 48.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3795 points

4307 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6072 points

3% slightly better gaming score

5864 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3112 points

3810 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2990 points

3690 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points

104.40 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

Identical

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

576 KiB

125% 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

4 MiB

16 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

473rd of 1,118

425th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 4300G vs Ryzen 5 1600X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1600X performs better than the Ryzen 3 4300G. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 4300G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 4300G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4300G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4300G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 4300G CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 1600X CPU because of its 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 1600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 4300G. The Ryzen 5 1600X 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 4300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.