Intel Core i3-2100 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Core i3-2100 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500GT beats the Core i3-2100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i3-2100 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-2100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-2100. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.