intel core i3 12100 vs amd ryzen 5 3400g

Intel Core i3 12100
VS
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Intel Core i3 12100
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

We compared two CPUs Intel Core i3 12100 (Desktop) 4-cores against AMD Ryzen 5 3400G (Desktop) 4-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between Intel Core i3 12100 and AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Advantages of Intel Core i3 12100
  • Newer released 3 years later
  • Consumes up to 8% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 3400G – 60 vs 65 Watt
  • Around 29.9 GB/s (39%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.3 GHz vs 4.2 GHz)
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 12
  • Supports up to 128 GB DDR5-4800 RAM
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
core i3 12100 +36%
1676
ryzen 5 3400g
1075
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
core i3 12100 +40%
8084
ryzen 5 3400g
4812
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
core i3 12100 +34%
3581
ryzen 5 3400g
2366
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
core i3 12100 +35%
14389
ryzen 5 3400g
9414
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
core i3 12100 +39%
6391
ryzen 5 3400g
3917

Specifications

Full technical specification of core i3 12100 and ryzen 5 3400g

General

Intel Core i3 12100 AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Vendor Intel AMD
Released January 4 2022 June 12 2019
Type Desktop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake-S Picasso
Socket FCLGA1700 AM4
Integrated GPU Intel UHD Graphics 730 AMD Radeon RX Vega 11

Performance

Intel Core i3 12100 AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Cores 4 4
Threads 8 8
Base Frequency 3.3 GHz 3.7 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.3 GHz 4.2 GHz
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 128K (per core)
L2 Cache 1.25 MB (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 12 MB (shared) 4 MB (shared)

Power

Intel Core i3 12100 AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Fabrication process Intel 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 W 65 W
Max. temperature 100°C °C

Memory support

Intel Core i3 12100 AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Memory types DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200 DDR4-2933
Memory Size 128 GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 76.8 GB/s 46.933 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

iGPU

Intel Core i3 12100 AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 730 AMD Radeon RX Vega 11
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1.4 MHz MHz
Shading Units 192 704
TMUs 48 44
ROPs 24 8
Execution Units 24
TGP 15 W 65 W
iGPU FLOPS
core i3 12100
0.35 TFLOPS
ryzen 5 3400g
1.746 TFLOPS

Misc

Intel Core i3 12100 AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Official site Intel Core i3 12100 official page AMD Ryzen 5 3400G official page
PCI Express Version 3
PCI Express Lanes 20 20

Сompetitors

1. intel core i7 12700k vs intel core i3 12100
2. intel core i7 12700kf vs intel core i3 12100
3. amd ryzen 7 5800x vs intel core i3 12100
4. intel core i5 12600k vs intel core i3 12100
5. intel core i9 12900k vs intel core i3 12100
6. amd ryzen 7 5700g vs amd ryzen 5 3400g
7. amd ryzen 5 5600x vs amd ryzen 5 3400g
8. amd ryzen 5 5600g vs amd ryzen 5 3400g
9. amd ryzen 5 3600 vs amd ryzen 5 3400g
10. amd ryzen 5 pro 4650g vs amd ryzen 5 3400g

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G or Intel Core i3 12100?