AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs AMD FX-8320E

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-8320E

Price

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$ 92.43

$ 85.59 significantly less expensive

$ 178.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points

48% significantly better overall score

2342 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points

59% significantly better gaming score

3438 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

1993 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points

44% significantly better heavy workload score

1917 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points

136% significantly higher Blender score

36.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points

205% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1615 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points

226% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points

203% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1680 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points

241% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

437 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

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 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

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

Identical

2 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

651st 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

2014 September

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-8320E benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 3100 is faster than the FX-8320E. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320E in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8320E. A Ryzen 3 3100 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320E CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 3 3100 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.