Intel Core i3-7100U vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 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

$ 1161.00
$ 447.36
$ 713.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

960 points
16669 points
1636% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1881 points
14068 points
647% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

720 points
17588 points
2342% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

693 points
17965 points
2492% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.26 points
568.01 points
2849% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1556 points
18904 points
1114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

757 points
2875 points
279% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1571 points
19297 points
1128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

770 points
2976 points
286% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
16
700% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
32
700% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
4.5 GHz
87% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
1033% significantly lower TDP
170 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
24
100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

962nd of 1,089
11th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i3-7100U vs Ryzen 9 7950X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7950X performs better than the Core i3-7100U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7100U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7950X has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7100U. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has 16 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7100U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7100U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7100U. A Core i3-7100U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7950X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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

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