AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Price

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$ 67.00

$ 1.37 slightly less expensive

$ 68.37

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

5312 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

7287 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

4672 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

4523 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4635 points

4824 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

124.29 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6235 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1560 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 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

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089

309th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 5 4500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4500 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 3600 and Ryzen 5 4500 are identical in this regard. 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. 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.