AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i3-12100

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i3-12100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3900X performs better than the Core i3-12100. Despite this, the Core i3-12100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i3-12100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-12100. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100 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.

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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.