I'm talking about their tiers as merchandise. i3 is to Ryzen 3 is to M* (eg: M1, M2, etc.). They are all the lowest tier of their respective premium class of me

I'm talking about their tiers as merchandise. i3 is to Ryzen 3 is to M* (eg: M1, M2, etc.). They are all the lowest tier of their respective premium class of merchandise. And regardless of benchmarks, an i3 will overkill any workload the average man will ask of it. You do realize an i3 has 4 hyperthreaded cores these days?