AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i7-6700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i7 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
$ 182.43 significantly less expensive
$ 274.86

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
3497 points
0.26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
5633 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
0.98% slightly better multitasking score
2866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
0.98% slightly better heavy workload score
2751 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4633 points
42% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
3242 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
81.27 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4822 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points
1442 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4936 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points
1506 points
0.87% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
4 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

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
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

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
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 1,089
482nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
6th Generation Core i7

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
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Core i7-6700K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700K 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3100. Also, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. 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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