AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Core i9-7900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 92.43
$ 597.52 significantly less expensive
$ 689.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
7006 points
100% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
7653 points
39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
6778 points
134% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
6719 points
141% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4633 points
6987 points
50% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
209.19 points
145% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points
9102 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points
0.85% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1406 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points
8832 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1432 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
20
150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.3 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
115% significantly lower TDP
140 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
640 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
14% slightly more L3 cache
14 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 1,089
193rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2017 May

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 i9-7900X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7900X 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 core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7900X has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 3100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7900X. Despite this, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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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