Intel Core i3-10110U vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Core i3-10110U vs Core i9-12900T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900T is faster than the Core i3-10110U. Despite this, the Core i3-10110U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i3-10110U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10110U. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-10110U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-10110U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900T CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-10110U. The Core i9-12900T 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.