AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i3-10100F

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i3-10100F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500X beats the Core i3-10100F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10100F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-10100F has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i3-10100F has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 3500X and Core i3-10100F are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i3-10100F 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.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.