AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Ryzen 3 4100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Ryzen 3 4100 in overall performance. 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 1600X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 4100. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 4100. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 4100 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 4100. The Ryzen 5 1600X 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 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.