AMD Ryzen 3 2200U vs Intel Core i3-7100

Ryzen 3 2200U vs Core i3-7100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-7100 beats the Ryzen 3 2200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 2200U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 2200U. A Ryzen 3 2200U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-7100 CPU because of its 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 3 2200U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-7100. The Ryzen 3 2200U also has slightly 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 2200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.