Ryzen 3 3100 vs Ryzen 7 1700 specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700 beats the Ryzen 3 3100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 1700 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 3100 that 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 7 1700. Also, the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3100. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.
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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