AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs AMD FX-4100

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 87.91
$ 302.09 significantly less expensive
$ 390.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points
171% significantly better overall score
1255 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points
122% significantly better gaming score
2361 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points
199% significantly better multitasking score
952 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points
199% significantly better heavy workload score
914 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points
271% significantly higher Blender score
18.53 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3543 points
169% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1317 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points
133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
474 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3624 points
262% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1001 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1137 points
185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
398 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
Identical
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

495th of 1,089
882nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics
FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 3400G vs FX-4100 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3400G performs better than the FX-4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3400G has significantly more cores than the FX-4100. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-4100. It also has more threads than the FX-4100. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-4100. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3400G CPU outputs less heat than a FX-4100 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The FX-4100 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 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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