AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs AMD Ryzen 3 4200G. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000 AMD Ryzen 4000G
• Family
  AMD Ryzen AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  4 3
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 9 3900 -
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  3.5 GHz 3.8 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  12 4
• CPU Threads
  24 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.7 GHz 4.1 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  4.3 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 4.1 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.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 6
• Generation
  - 9
• GPU Frequency
  - 1700 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon 6 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2020
• Shader
  - 384
• Technology
  - 7 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 3 4200G and AMD Ryzen 9 5900. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200
• PCIe lanes
  20 12
• PCIe version
  4.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 5900 and AMD Ryzen 3 4200G 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 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 5900 and AMD Ryzen 3 4200G, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Vermeer (Zen 3) Renoir (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
  6 MB -
• L3-Cache
  64 MB 8 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q3/2020
• Socket
  AM4 FP6
• Technology
  7 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM