Intel Core i3-12100F vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i3-12100F vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-12100F performs better than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100F. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100F. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-12100F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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