AMD Ryzen 5 4500U vs Intel Core i3-540

Ryzen 5 4500U vs Core i3-540 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4500U beats the Core i3-540 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-540 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 4500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-540 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-540. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-540 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4500U. A Ryzen 5 4500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-540 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.