AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i3-10100

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i3-10100 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3900X is faster 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 9 3900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i3-10100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10100. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-10100. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-10100 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3900X thanks to a 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 9 3900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-10100. The Ryzen 9 3900X 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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.