Intel Core i3-10100 vs Intel Core i3-9300

Core i3-10100 vs Core i3-9300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-10100 is faster than the Core i3-9300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-9300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-10100 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-9300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-10100. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i3-9300 outputs less heat than Core i3-10100 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i3-9300 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-10100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.