AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i3 8100

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We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 3500X with 6 cores 3.6GHz and Intel Core i3 8100 with 4 cores 3.6GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR4-2400)

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 37.5GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3.0)

Larger L3 cache size (32MB vs 6MB)

Intel Core i3 8100 's Advantages

Integrated graphics card

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X +24%

1166

Intel Core i3 8100

936

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X +85%

6717

Intel Core i3 8100

3614

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X +34%

1650

Intel Core i3 8100

1223

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X +78%

6523

Intel Core i3 8100

3646

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

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Intel Core i3 8100

General Parameters

Sep 2019

Release Date

Oct 2017

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Desktop

Type

Desktop

-

Instruction Set

x86-64

Matisse

Core Architecture

Coffee Lake

-

Processor Number

i3-8100

AMD Socket AM4

Socket

LGA-1151

N/A

Integrated Graphics

UHD Graphics 630

Ryzen 5 (Zen 2 (Matisse))

Generation

-

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

-

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

AMD Socket AM4

Socket

LGA-1151

65 W

Power Consumption

65 W

95 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

TSMC

Foundry

-

74 mm²

Die Size

-

12 nm

I/O Process Size

-

124 mm²

I/O Die Size

-

µOPGA-1331

Package

-

CPU Performance

-

Performance Cores

4

-

Performance Core Threads

4

3.6 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.6 GHz

4.1 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

-

6

Total Core Count

4

6

Total Thread Count

4

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

36.0

Multiplier

28x

64 KB per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

512 KB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

32 MB shared

L3 Cache

6 MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

SMP

-

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR4-2400

-

Max Memory Size

64 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

51.2 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

37.5 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Graphics Card Parameters

-

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Base Frequency

350 MHz

-

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1100 MHz

-

Shader Units

192

-

Texture Units

24

-

Raster Operation Units

3

-

Execution Units

24

-

Power Consumption

15 W

-

Max Resolution

4096x2304 - 60 Hz

1.18 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

0.38 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Official Website

Intel Core i3 8100

4

PCIe Version

3.0

24

PCIe Lanes

16

-

Extended Instruction Set

SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2

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