AMD Ryzen 3 4300G vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

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 5600X

Price

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$ 146.63

$ 77.62 significantly less expensive

$ 224.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3697 points

6410 points

73% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6008 points

8714 points

45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3016 points

5668 points

87% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points

5487 points

88% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points

155.16 points

106% significantly 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

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.6 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

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

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

4 MiB

32 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

462nd of 1,089

226th of 1,089

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

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 4300G vs Ryzen 5 5600X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Ryzen 3 4300G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 4300G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 5600X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 4300G. The Ryzen 5 5600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 4300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.