AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i7-7700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-7700K

Price

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$ 92.43

$ 92.57 significantly less expensive

$ 185.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points

3620 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points

5762 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points

2983 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points

2864 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4633 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

3473 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points

85.21 points

0.11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points

5070 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points

1524 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points

5174 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points

1596 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

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

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

471st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

7th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Core i7-7700K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7700K beats the Ryzen 3 3100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3100 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 3100. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 3100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-7700K. 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.