Intel Core i3-10100 vs Intel Core i7-3960X

Core i3-10100 vs Core i7-3960X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3960X beats the Core i3-10100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-10100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3960X 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-10100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3960X. Also, the Core i3-10100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-10100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3960X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.