AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 3 4100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600 beats the Ryzen 3 4100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 4100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 4100. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 4100. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 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 3600 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 4100. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.