AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs Intel Core i3-7100

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 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

1528 points
1764 points
15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points
3405 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points
1328 points
14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points
1278 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points
34.32 points
81% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1400 points
2322 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

742 points
1183 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points
2485 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points
1265 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.9 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
239% significantly lower TDP
51 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089
764th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
7th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Core i3-7100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-7100 performs better than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3250U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 3250U. A Ryzen 3 3250U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-7100 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 3 3250U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-7100. The Ryzen 3 3250U also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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