Intel Core i3-10100 vs Intel Core i7-5930K

Core i3-10100 vs Core i7-5930K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5930K 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 i7-5930K 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-10100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5930K. Also, the Core i3-10100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-10100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5930K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.