AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i5-11400H

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
5137 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
7413 points
35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
4443 points
53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
4295 points
54% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4633 points
5385 points
16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
107.17 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points
6310 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points
1799 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points
6415 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points
1824 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed
2.69 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.5 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed

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
576 KiB
125% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
7.5 MiB
274% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 1,089
333rd 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 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
-

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 i5-11400H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11400H performs better than the Ryzen 3 3100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-11400H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3100. Indeed, the Core i5-11400H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3100. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3100. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11400H. Despite this, the Core i5-11400H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11400H 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. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-11400H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3100. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3100 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-11400H.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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