AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Compare AMD 6 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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$ 130.00

$ 93.99

$ 36.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

5223 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

8443 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

4270 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

4098 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

4038 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

106.71 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

7143 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

2123 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

7384 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

2218 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

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

4.1 GHz

4.3 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

58 W

12% slightly lower TDP

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

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

323rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i3-12100F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-12100F is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-12100F that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 3500X 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.