Intel Core i3-10100 vs Intel Core i7-10875H

Core i3-10100 vs Core i7-10875H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10875H is faster than the Core i3-10100. Despite this, the Core i3-10100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10875H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-10100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10100. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-10100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10875H. Despite this, the Core i7-10875H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10875H 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-10875H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-10100. The Core i7-10875H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-10100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.