Intel Core i3-12100 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs AMD 9 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 128.59
$ 2270.36 significantly less expensive
$ 2398.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5115 points
5669 points
10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8339 points
16% slightly better gaming score
7130 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4166 points
5211 points
25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4001 points
5104 points
27% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.80 points
136.28 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6766 points
12689 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1438 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
9
125% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
18
125% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed
3.19 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

60 W
300% significantly lower TDP
240 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

320 KiB
576 KiB
79% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

337th of 1,089
278th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Core i3-12100 vs EPYC 74F3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the EPYC 74F3 is faster than the Core i3-12100. Despite this, the Core i3-12100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-12100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the EPYC 74F3. A Core i3-12100 CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i3-12100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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