Intel Core i3-12100 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 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

5368 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8339 points

25% slightly better gaming score

6635 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4166 points

4972 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4001 points

4862 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.80 points

130.22 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6766 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6209 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1630 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

64% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

60 W

15 W

300% 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

352nd of 1,118

318th of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i3-12100 vs Ryzen 7 7730U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7730U beats the Core i3-12100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-12100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7730U has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-12100 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7730U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7730U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7730U 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.

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.