Intel Core i3-7100 vs AMD FX-8300

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-8300

Price

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$ 129.99

$ 98.02

$ 31.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1764 points

2211 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3405 points

2% slightly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1328 points

1866 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1278 points

1792 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.32 points

35.10 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2322 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1183 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2485 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1719 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1265 points

175% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

459 points

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

3.9 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W

86% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

384 KiB

200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

8 MiB

1500% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB

8 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

764th of 1,089

681st of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

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 FX-8300 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster than the Core i3-7100. Despite this, the Core i3-7100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-8300 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7100. Indeed, the FX-8300 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-7100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8300. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-7100. The FX-8300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.