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AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 63 %

AMD Ryzen 3 3100

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 64 %

AMD Ryzen 3 3100

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

285 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

470 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

1,490 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,316 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

77 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

415 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

1,105 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,592 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

5,423 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,558 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

1,477

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

5,372

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

1,134

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

4,865

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,853

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3100	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Family	AMD Ryzen 3 (34)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 3000 (15)	Apple M2 (8)
Architecture	Matisse (Zen 2)	M2
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	AM4 (PGA 1331)
Predecessor		Apple M1
Successor	AMD Ryzen 3 4100	Apple M3 (8-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3100	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 3.60 - 3.90 GHz	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	2.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3100	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple M2 (8 Core)
GPU frequency		0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		2
Max. GPU Memory		24 GB
Technology		5 nm
Release date		Q2/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3100	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3100	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Memory	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	4.0 x 20	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3100	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
TDP	65 W	20 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.	95 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3100	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q2/2020	Q2/2022
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Ryzen 3 3100 is 4.5 stars (52 ratings), while Apple M2 (8-GPU) has received 4.6 stars (108 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen 3 3100
4C / 8T · 3.60 - 3.90 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M2 (8-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★