AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs Intel Core i3-6100

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3700 MHz / Cores: 8 / Mar 2018
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Intel Core i3-6100
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3700 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2015
Intel Core i3-6100

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    343%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    116%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    569%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

16% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 469% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Around 243% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-6100

54 watts lower power draw.
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X.

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i3-6100
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
XFR
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
Hyper-Threading
AES-NI
TSX
CLMUL
FMA3

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i3-6100
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsIntel_Skylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3, DDR4
CodenameZenvsSkylake
Release DateMar 2018vsSep 2015

Cores

AMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i3-6100
Cores8vs2
Threads16vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD 530

Cache

AMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i3-6100
L1 Cache96 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16384 KB (shared)vs4096 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i3-6100
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Tempunknownvs65°C
PackageuPGAvs
Die Size192mm²vs150mm²
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i3-6100
Cpu Frequency3700 MHzvs3700 MHz
Turbo Clock4350 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP105 Wvs51 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    4785 points
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    4255 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    39723 points
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    10297 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    1828
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    321

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    180
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    154

points - higher is better