AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th 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
$ 876.57 significantly less expensive
$ 969.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
67% significantly better overall score
2085 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
55% significantly better gaming score
3523 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
73% significantly better multitasking score
1671 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
73% significantly better heavy workload score
1597 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
95% significantly higher Blender score
43.52 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2622 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
878 points

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
100% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4 GHz
2% 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
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
706th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

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 i7-8550U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 3100 performs better than the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 3100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8550U 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8550U. The Ryzen 3 3100 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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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