AMD Ryzen 5 4500 vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Desktop 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Athlon 3000G

Price

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$ 68.37

$ 1.62 slightly less expensive

$ 69.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5312 points

259% significantly better overall score

1477 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7287 points

165% significantly better gaming score

2742 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4672 points

311% significantly better multitasking score

1135 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4523 points

313% significantly better heavy workload score

1095 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

124.29 points

296% significantly higher Blender score

31.38 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6235 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1970 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

956 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 1,089

813th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Athlon Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 4500 vs Athlon 3000G comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4500 beats the Athlon 3000G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon 3000G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 4500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Athlon 3000G has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon 3000G. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 4500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 4500 has more L2 cache than the Athlon 3000G. The Ryzen 5 4500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.