Intel Core i3-7100 vs AMD A10-7890K

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1764 points

30% slightly better overall score

1356 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3405 points

31% slightly better gaming score

2586 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1328 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

1021 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1278 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

978 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.32 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

26.81 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

4.1 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W

86% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

256 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

4 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

764th of 1,089

853rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2016 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-7100 vs A10-7890K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-7100 performs better than the A10-7890K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7890K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-7890K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7100. A Core i3-7100 CPU outputs less heat than a A10-7890K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A10-7890K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-7100

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.