Intel Core i3-2100 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 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

$ 49.00
$ 106.73 significantly less expensive
$ 155.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1270 points
5521 points
334% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2433 points
8044 points
230% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

956 points
4773 points
399% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

918 points
4617 points
402% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.20 points
159.49 points
949% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

947 points
9444 points
897% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

465 points
2354 points
406% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.55 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

878th of 1,089
291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5

Core i3-2100 vs Ryzen 5 8500G benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8500G is faster than the Core i3-2100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more cores than the Core i3-2100. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-2100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-2100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G 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.

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 i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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