AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Desktop 2 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

$ 92.43
$ 69.99
$ 22.44 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
136% significantly better overall score
1477 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
99% significantly better gaming score
2742 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
154% significantly better multitasking score
1135 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
153% significantly better heavy workload score
1095 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
171% significantly higher Blender score
31.38 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points
150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1966 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
957 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points
158% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1970 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
956 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 1,089
813th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Athlon Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Athlon 3000G specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 3100 performs better than the Athlon 3000G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon 3000G in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 3 3100 has significantly more cores than the Athlon 3000G. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon 3000G. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon 3000G. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 3100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 3100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon 3000G. The Ryzen 3 3100 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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