Intel Core i3-10100 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Core i3-10100 vs Core Ultra 5 125U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-10100 beats the Core Ultra 5 125U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 125U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i3-10100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10100. In terms of clock speed, the Core i3-10100 and Core Ultra 5 125U are identical in this regard. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 125U has more L2 cache than the Core i3-10100. The Core Ultra 5 125U 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.