AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i3-4160

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 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

$ 184.99
$ 98.00
$ 86.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points
414% significantly better overall score
1444 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points
210% significantly better gaming score
2813 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points
547% significantly better multitasking score
1081 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points
562% significantly better heavy workload score
1038 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points
726% significantly higher Blender score
23.82 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8659 points
368% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1850 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
962 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points
329% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2084 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1076 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
300% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
300% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
54 W
20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089
823rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop
4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2014 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

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Core i3-4160 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700G is faster than the Core i3-4160. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4160 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700G has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4160. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has 8 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4160. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4160. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-4160. The Core i3-4160 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5700G thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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