AMD Ryzen 5 3500 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4057 points

4% slightly better overall score

3892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

2% slightly better gaming score

6333 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

3162 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

3035 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

80.44 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5422 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4865 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1517 points

0.33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1512 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

3.80 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

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

384 KiB

49% 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

430th 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

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500 vs Ryzen 3 4100 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500 is faster than the Ryzen 3 4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 4100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 4100 has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 4100 has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 4100. The Ryzen 5 3500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.