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

3478 points

10% slightly better overall score

3147 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5576 points

11% slightly better gaming score

4989 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2857 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

2595 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2743 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

2494 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.47 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

64.47 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4213 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3685 points

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

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

Identical

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

485th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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. 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-10100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.