AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs Intel Core i3-10100

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Core i3-10100 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 3700X performs better than the Core i3-10100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-10100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10100. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 7 3700X and Core i3-10100 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700X 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-10100. The Ryzen 7 3700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.