AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core i3-8100

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i3 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-8100

Price

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$ 1963.00

$ 169.99

$ 1793.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points

0.08% slightly better overall score

2549 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points

4731 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1938 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1859 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points

47.29 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points

3299 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points

1201 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points

3471 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points

1267 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

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

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089

616th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

8th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core i3-8100 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 3700U performs better than the Core i3-8100. Despite this, the Core i3-8100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 3700U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-8100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3700U. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-8100 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 Ryzen 7 3700U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8100. Despite this, the Core i3-8100 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.