AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i5-6600T

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th 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
$ 328.57 significantly less expensive
$ 421.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
71% significantly better overall score
2037 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
43% significantly better gaming score
3823 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
87% significantly better multitasking score
1547 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
87% significantly better heavy workload score
1485 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
81% significantly higher Blender score
46.95 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3085 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1154 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3083 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1165 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 1,089
710th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Core i5-6600T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 3100 is faster than the Core i5-6600T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 3 3100 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6600T. Also, the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6600T 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 more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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