Intel Core i3-8100 vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Core i3-8100 vs Ryzen 9 6900HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 6900HS beats the Core i3-8100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-8100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8100. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HS outputs less heat than Core i3-8100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has more L2 cache than the Core i3-8100. The Ryzen 9 6900HS also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i3-8100 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.