AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Core i3-9100

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i3 4 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

$ 120.00
$ 72.99
$ 47.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3954 points
38% slightly better overall score
2845 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points
20% slightly better gaming score
5304 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points
49% significantly better multitasking score
2160 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points
49% significantly better heavy workload score
2073 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points
61% significantly higher Blender score
54.00 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3579 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1335 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3650 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1394 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
Identical
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,089
561st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
9th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 3 3300X vs Core i3-9100 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 3300X beats the Core i3-9100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-9100 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 3 3300X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-9100. Also, the Ryzen 3 3300X 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 3300X has more L2 cache than the Core i3-9100. The Ryzen 3 3300X 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 3300X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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