Intel Core i3-10100 vs Intel Core i7-8700K

Core i3-10100 vs Core i7-8700K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700K 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 i7-8700K 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 i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-10100. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-10100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8700K CPU because of its 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 i7-8700K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-10100. The Core i7-8700K also has significantly 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.