AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Celeron N4500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Celeron N Series 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

$ 67.00
$ 236.15 significantly less expensive
$ 303.15

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
680% significantly better overall score
638 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
390% significantly better gaming score
1374 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
852% significantly better multitasking score
464 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
857% significantly better heavy workload score
447 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
1853% significantly higher Blender score
6.84 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
871% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
710 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
270% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
435 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
499% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
227% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
6 W
983% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
1,050th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Celeron N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4 LPDDR4x

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Celeron N4500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600 performs better than the Celeron N4500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Celeron N4500 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron N4500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4500. The Celeron N4500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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