AMD Ryzen 3 5100 vs AMD Ryzen 9 3900X. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000G AMD Ryzen 3000
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Ryzen
• Generation
  4 3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
• Form Factor
  - Desktops / Boxed Processor
• Series
  - Ryzen 3000 Series

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.6 GHz 3.8 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  4x Zen 3 12x
• CPU Cores
  4 12
• CPU Threads
  8 24
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.2 GHz 4.6 GHz
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 4.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  - 4.2 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU None
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and AMD Ryzen 3 5100. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 128 GB
• Memory Bandwidth
  51.2 GB/s 51.2 GB/s
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4
• PCIe
  3.0 x 24 PCIe 4.0 x16
• System Memory Specification
  - 3200

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 3 5100 and AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 105 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - 142 W
• Default TDP
  - 105 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 3 5100 and AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cezanne (Zen 3) Matisse (Zen 2)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  2 MB 6 MB
• L3-Cache
  8 MB 64 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2022 2019-07-07
• Socket
  AM4 AM4
• Technology
  7 nm TSMC 7nm FinFET
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Matisse
• L1-Cache
  - 0.75 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
  - 100-100000023BOX
• Manufacturer product ID (MPK)
  - 100-100000023MPK
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  - 100-000000023
• Operating systems
  - Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit