Intel Core i3-10110U vs Intel Core i5-8259U

Core i3-10110U vs Core i5-8259U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8259U beats the Core i3-10110U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10110U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-8259U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-10110U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10110U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8259U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-10110U. Despite this, the Core i3-10110U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-10110U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8259U CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-8259U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-10110U. The Core i5-8259U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i3-10110U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.