AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i5-11400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-11400F

Price

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$ 92.43

$ 57.66 significantly less expensive

$ 150.09

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points

5669 points

62% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points

8320 points

52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points

4844 points

67% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points

4676 points

68% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4633 points

5719 points

23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points

128.47 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points

7380 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points

1895 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points

7590 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points

1979 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.4 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 1,089

277th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Core i5-11400F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400F is faster than the Ryzen 3 3100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11400F has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400F. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.