AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

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

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AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Price

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$ 58.40

$ 1.00 slightly less expensive

$ 59.40

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

15% slightly better overall score

3892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

6333 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

3162 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

3035 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

80.44 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

4865 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

1512 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

3.2 GHz

3.80 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4 GHz

11% 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

576 KiB

125% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

443rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Ryzen 3 4100 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600 is faster than the Ryzen 3 4100. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 4100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 4100. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 4100. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4100. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1600. Also, the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 1600 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 4100. The Ryzen 5 1600 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 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.