Intel Core i3-10100T vs Intel Core i7-5820K

Core i3-10100T vs Core i7-5820K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5820K beats the Core i3-10100T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10100T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-5820K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-10100T has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10100T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5820K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-10100T. Despite this, the Core i3-10100T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-10100T CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5820K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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.