AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs AMD FX-4100

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-4100

Price

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$ 140.99

$ 249.01 significantly less expensive

$ 390.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

389% significantly better overall score

1255 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

251% significantly better gaming score

2361 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

472% significantly better multitasking score

952 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

477% significantly better heavy workload score

914 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

692% significantly higher Blender score

18.53 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points

475% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1317 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points

297% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

474 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

666% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1001 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

385% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

398 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

3.9 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

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

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089

882nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600G vs FX-4100 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600G is faster than the FX-4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-4100 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-4100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-4100. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has more L2 cache than the FX-4100. The Ryzen 5 5600G also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.