Intel Core i3-7100 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 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
5419 points
207% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3405 points
6732 points
97% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1328 points
5010 points
277% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1278 points
4902 points
283% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.32 points
130.22 points
279% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2485 points
6209 points
149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1265 points
1630 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
8
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
95% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W
15 W
239% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
512 KiB
300% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
4 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB
16 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

764th of 1,089
302nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core i3-7100 vs Ryzen 7 7730U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7730U performs better than the Core i3-7100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 7730U has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i3-7100 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7730U. The Ryzen 7 7730U outputs less heat than Core i3-7100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7730U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-7100. The Ryzen 7 7730U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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