AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Core i7-920

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 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
$ 99.95
$ 20.05 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3954 points
168% significantly better overall score
1474 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points
155% significantly better gaming score
2489 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points
174% significantly better multitasking score
1179 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points
174% significantly better heavy workload score
1132 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points
178% significantly higher Blender score
31.28 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points
282% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1489 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points
282% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
419 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points
310% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1431 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points
309% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
415 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed
2.79 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
46% significantly higher turbo speed
2.93 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
100% significantly lower TDP
130 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
8 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,089
814th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2008 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 3300X vs Core i7-920 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 3300X beats the Core i7-920 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-920. Also, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3300X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-920 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-920 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 3300X

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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