AMD Ryzen 5 1600 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (16MB vs 4MB)
AMD Ryzen 3 4100 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR4-2666)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 3.0)
Higher base frequency (3.8GHz vs 3.2GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)