AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i7-8700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 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
$ 101.57 significantly less expensive
$ 194.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
5130 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
7103 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
4499 points
55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
4352 points
56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4633 points
5074 points
9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
126.15 points
48% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points
6462 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points
1549 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points
6565 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points
1621 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% 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
3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.7 GHz
20% 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
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

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
335th 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 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Core i7-8700K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8700K performs better than the Ryzen 3 3100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 3100. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8700K CPU because of its 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 Ryzen 3 3100 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 3 3100 also has slightly 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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