AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i5-4210U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 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

$ 99.99
$ 1667.01 significantly less expensive
$ 1767.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points
466% significantly better overall score
904 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points
296% significantly better gaming score
1741 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points
568% significantly better multitasking score
681 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points
575% significantly better heavy workload score
654 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points
677% significantly higher Blender score
17.60 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points
420% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1338 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points
133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
689 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points
384% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1460 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points
117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
764 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
123% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
62% significantly higher turbo speed
2.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
15 W
533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089
983rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i5-4210U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600X performs better than the Core i5-4210U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-4210U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4210U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210U. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4210U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600X 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 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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