AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i3-2310M

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Core i3-2310M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 3100 beats the Core i3-2310M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2310M 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 Core i3-2310M. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-2310M. It also has more threads than the Core i3-2310M. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-2310M. The Core i3-2310M 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.

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.