AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 59.40

$ 164.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6413 points

64% significantly better overall score

3892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points

37% slightly better gaming score

6333 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5671 points

79% significantly better multitasking score

3162 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5491 points

80% significantly better heavy workload score

3035 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

92% significantly higher Blender score

80.44 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4865 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1512 points

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

3.80 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 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

32 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

443rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Ryzen 3 4100 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Ryzen 3 4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 4100 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 Ryzen 3 4100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 4100. The Ryzen 5 5600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.