Intel Core i3-10100 vs Intel Core i7-10710U

Core i3-10100 vs Core i7-10710U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10710U beats the Core i3-10100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10710U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-10100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-10100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10710U. Despite this, the Core i7-10710U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10710U outputs less heat than Core i3-10100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-10710U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-10100. The Core i7-10710U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-10100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.