AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
7% slightly better overall score
3249 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
22% slightly better gaming score
4467 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
0.49% slightly better multitasking score
2880 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
2792 points
0.50% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
104.16 points
22% slightly higher Blender 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
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 1,089
505th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 3 3100 vs Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition is faster than the Ryzen 3 3100. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3100. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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