AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs AMD FX-8150

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-8150

Price

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$ 92.43

$ 68.02

$ 24.41 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points

52% significantly better overall score

2289 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points

62% significantly better gaming score

3360 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

1951 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

1878 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points

142% significantly higher Blender score

35.07 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2396 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

512 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1758 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points

235% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

445 points

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

Identical

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.2 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

125 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

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

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

664th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 3100 vs FX-8150 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 3100 performs better than the FX-8150. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8150 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Both the Ryzen 3 3100 and FX-8150 have the same clock speed. A Ryzen 3 3100 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8150 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 FX-8150 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 3100. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3100 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8150.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.