Intel Core i3-10100F vs Intel Core i7-2700K

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-2700K

Price

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$ 100.00

$ 89.88 significantly less expensive

$ 189.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3491 points

34% slightly better overall score

2597 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5569 points

45% significantly better gaming score

3839 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2875 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

2213 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2761 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

2133 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

76.92 points

73% significantly higher Blender score

44.33 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4424 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2222 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1401 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

627 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4497 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2293 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1449 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

672 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

483rd of 1,089

608th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i3

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-10100F vs Core i7-2700K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-10100F is faster than the Core i7-2700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2700K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-10100F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2700K. Also, the Core i3-10100F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-10100F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-2700K 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 i3-10100F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.