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Intel Core i3-4100M vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500C

Last updated: 2025-12-07

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 82 %

Intel Core i3-4100M

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 5 3500C

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 57 %

Intel Core i3-4100M

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 5 3500C

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

768

4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz

928

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,645

4C / 8T · 2.50 GHz

2,072

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

586

4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz

719

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,384

4C / 8T · 2.50 GHz

3,080

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 4600

368

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Raven Ridge)

1,229

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	AMD Ryzen 5 3500C
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	AMD Ryzen 5 (100)
CPU group	Intel Core i 4000M/4000H (38)	AMD Ryzen 3000C (3)
Architecture	Haswell H	Picasso (Zen+)
Technology	22 nm	12 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	PGA 946	FP5
Predecessor
Successor		AMD Ryzen 5 5625C

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	AMD Ryzen 5 3500C
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	2x	4x
Frequency:	2.50 GHz	2.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):		3.70 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		2.50 GHz
L2-Cache		2.00 MB
L3-Cache	3.00 MB	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	AMD Ryzen 5 3500C
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Raven Ridge)
GPU frequency	0.20 - 1.15 GHz	1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 160	8 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	2 GB
Technology	22 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q2/2013	Q1/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	AMD Ryzen 5 3500C
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	AMD Ryzen 5 3500C
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	2.0 x 16	3.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s	19.7 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	AMD Ryzen 5 3500C
TDP	37 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down		12 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	AMD Ryzen 5 3500C
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date	Q4/2013	Q3/2020
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i3-4100M is 2.4 stars (5 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 5 3500C has received 4.8 stars (5 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i3-4100M
2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 5 3500C
4C / 8T · 2.10 - 3.70 GHz

★★★★★