AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i7-1265U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 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
0.37% slightly better overall score
3475 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
13% slightly better gaming score
4820 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
3078 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
2987 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
85.57 points
0.54% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points
6232 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points
1914 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points
6222 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points
1915 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% 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
100% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.8 GHz
23% 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
800 KiB
212% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% 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
486th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

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 i7-1265U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 3100 is faster than the Core i7-1265U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1265U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1265U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3100. Indeed, the Core i7-1265U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3100. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1265U 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 i7-1265U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3100. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3100 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-1265U.

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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