Intel Core i3-10105 vs Intel Core i5-8259U

Core i3-10105 vs Core i5-8259U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-10105 performs better than the Core i5-8259U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8259U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-10105 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. Also, the Core i3-10105 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8259U outputs less heat than Core i3-10105 thanks to a 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 i3-10105 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.