AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-12100F

Price

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$ 109.99

$ 93.99

$ 16.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3189 points

5223 points

63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4881 points

8443 points

72% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2673 points

4270 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2565 points

4098 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3483 points

4038 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.91 points

106.71 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3218 points

7143 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1031 points

2123 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3230 points

7384 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1037 points

2218 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

58 W

12% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

320 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

12 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

512th of 1,089

323rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 December

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 2400G vs Core i3-12100F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-12100F is faster than the Ryzen 5 2400G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2400G in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2400G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-12100F. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100F outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2400G thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5 2400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.