Intel Core i3-10100T vs Intel Core i5-8500T

Core i3-10100T vs Core i5-8500T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8500T is faster than the Core i3-10100T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10100T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8500T has significantly more cores than the Core i3-10100T. Indeed, the Core i5-8500T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-10100T. Despite this, the Core i3-10100T has more threads than the Core i5-8500T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-10100T has a much higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500T. Also, the Core i3-10100T has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i3-10100T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.