Intel Core i3-10105 vs Intel Core i7-3930K

Core i3-10105 vs Core i7-3930K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3930K beats the Core i3-10105 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-10105 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-3930K has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-10105 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10105. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-10105 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3930K. Also, the Core i3-10105 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-10105 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3930K 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 i3-10105 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.