AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 92.43
$ 127.37 significantly less expensive
$ 219.80

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points
7869 points
125% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points
9478 points
73% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points
7328 points
153% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points
7169 points
158% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4633 points
7634 points
64% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points
213.11 points
150% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points
10085 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points
2119 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points
10211 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points
2193 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.7 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
512 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 1,089
151st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Ryzen 7 5800X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the Ryzen 3 3100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3100. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3100. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3100. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 3100. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3100 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 5800X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3100. The Ryzen 7 5800X also has significantly more 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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