Intel Core i3-10100 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3465 points
12% slightly better overall score
3089 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5570 points
13% slightly better gaming score
4905 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2844 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
2545 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2730 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
2445 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.47 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
64.47 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4213 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3685 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1432 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1171 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed
2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
Identical
4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
Identical
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

505th of 1,118
546th of 1,118

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i3
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-10100 vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-10100 performs better than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-10100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Core i3-10100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7520U has more L2 cache than the Core i3-10100. Despite this, the Core i3-10100 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-10100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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