Intel Core i7-7700K vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Price

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$ 185.00

$ 59.40

$ 125.60 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3620 points

3892 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5762 points

6333 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2983 points

3162 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2864 points

3035 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.21 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

80.44 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5174 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4865 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1596 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1512 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

3.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% 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

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

471st of 1,089

443rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7700K vs Ryzen 3 4100 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 4100 beats the Core i7-7700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 4100. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 4100 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700K. Despite this, the Core i7-7700K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 4100.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.