Intel Core i3-12100F vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

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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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Price

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$ 93.99

$ 292.15 significantly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5223 points

10011 points

91% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8443 points

11884 points

40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4270 points

9348 points

118% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4098 points

9142 points

123% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4038 points

8010 points

98% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.71 points

263.24 points

146% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7384 points

15051 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points

2723 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

4.20 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

5 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W

106% significantly lower TDP

120 W

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

96 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

323rd of 1,089

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i3-12100F vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is faster than the Core i3-12100F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-12100F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100F. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100F. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-12100F.

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