Intel Core i3-8100 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 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

2549 points

3147 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4731 points

4989 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1938 points

2595 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1859 points

2494 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.29 points

64.47 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3471 points

3685 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1267 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1171 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.3 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

Identical

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

616th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-8100 vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-8100 performs better than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 7520U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7520U has more L2 cache than the Core i3-8100. Despite this, the Core i3-8100 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U.

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. For instance, the Core i3-8100 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.