AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i9-14900KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The average price from our partner retailers

$ 92.43
$ 316.06 significantly less expensive
$ 408.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
15773 points
352% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
15321 points
180% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
16003 points
452% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
16246 points
484% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4633 points
16795 points
262% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
508.28 points
497% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points
20340 points
299% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points
3072 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
24
499% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
32
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
32 MiB
1500% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
36 MiB
125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

506th of 1,126
18th of 1,126

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 3 3100 vs Core i9-14900KF benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900KF 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900KF has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900KF. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-14900KF has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3100. The Core i9-14900KF 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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