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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 93.99
$ 292.15 significantly less expensive
$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5223 points
10007 points
91% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8443 points
11874 points
40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4270 points
9347 points
118% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4098 points
9141 points
123% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4038 points
8010 points
98% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.71 points
263.24 points
146% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7384 points
15051 points
103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) 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

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
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

2
Identical
2

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

338th of 1,118
92nd 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
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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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. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-12100F CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU because of its 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 i3-12100F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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