AMD Ryzen 5 4500U vs Intel Core i3-12100

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3472 points
5115 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5565 points
8339 points
49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2824 points
4166 points
47% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2709 points
4001 points
47% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.25 points
111.80 points
61% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.3 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
300% significantly lower TDP
60 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
20% slightly more L1 cache
320 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 1,089
337th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 5 4500U vs Core i3-12100 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-12100 performs better than the Ryzen 5 4500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 4500U has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100. Despite this, the Core i3-12100 has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-12100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4500U. A Ryzen 5 4500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-12100 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 4500U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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