Ryzen 3 3200G vs. Core i3-9100 vs. Athlon 3000G

ROUND 1

Value

This is tough. In terms of baseline pricing, the Athlon 3000G should win this round; it’s $50, for crying out loud. There’s no buying integrated graphics processors with that kind of money, other than the old Celeron and Pentium APUs from Intel that aren’t supported on current-gen mobos. The 3000G does sit beneath AMD’s other APUs in terms of processing power and features, though. The Intel Core i3-9100 offers a maximum of 16 PCIe lanes and 50 percent more cache memory, while the Ryzen 3 3200G has the fastest memory support: 2,933MHz as opposed to the 9100’s 2,400MHz and the 3000G’s 2,667MHz.

All three come with an air cooler unit, although Intel’s included coolers aren’t