Intel Core i3-10100 vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Core i3-10100 vs Core i7-8550U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-10100 beats the Core i7-8550U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-10100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Also, the Core i3-10100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8550U 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-8550U 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.