AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i5-10210U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 4 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
$ 1546.57 significantly less expensive
$ 1639.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
58% significantly better overall score
2205 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
43% significantly better gaming score
3819 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
65% significantly better multitasking score
1744 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
66% significantly better heavy workload score
1666 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
134% significantly higher Blender score
36.33 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2911 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
948 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3069 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1196 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
125% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.2 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
Identical
256 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
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 1,089
684th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2019 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Core i5-10210U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 3100 beats the Core i5-10210U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10210U 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 Ryzen 3 3100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10210U. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10210U 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 Core i5-10210U. 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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