AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Core i3-12100

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 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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Intel Core i3-12100

Price

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$ 235.64

$ 128.59

$ 107.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

2% slightly better overall score

5115 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

8339 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

4166 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

4001 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4871 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

4034 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

111.80 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

6766 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

2147 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.3 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

60 W

8% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

322nd of 1,089

337th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Core i3-12100 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600G beats the Core i3-12100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-12100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-12100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-12100. Despite this, the Core i3-12100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 4600G thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 4600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.