Intel Core i3-12100 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7535U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 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

5115 points

5343 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8339 points

7% slightly better gaming score

7732 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4166 points

4604 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4001 points

4446 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.80 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

110.60 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6766 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6546 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1753 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.55 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

60 W

28 W

114% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

320 KiB

512 KiB

60% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

337th of 1,089

307th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i3-12100 vs Ryzen 5 7535U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7535U performs better than the Core i3-12100. Despite this, the Core i3-12100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 7535U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-12100 that has 4 cores. 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 Ryzen 5 7535U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7535U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7535U outputs less heat than Core i3-12100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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