AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i3-4330

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 224.25
$ 92.61
$ 131.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6413 points
357% significantly better overall score
1401 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points
213% significantly better gaming score
2783 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5671 points
445% significantly better multitasking score
1040 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5491 points
450% significantly better heavy workload score
998 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points
335% significantly higher Blender score
35.61 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points
378% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1785 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points
150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
818 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points
314% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2089 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1060 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
54 W
20% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
25% slightly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089
838th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i3-4330 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Core i3-4330. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4330 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-4330 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4330. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-4330. The Core i3-4330 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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