Intel Core i3-12100F vs Intel Core i9-9820X

Core i3-12100F vs Core i9-9820X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9820X is faster than the Core i3-12100F. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9820X has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i3-12100F has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. In terms of clock speed, the Core i3-12100F and Core i9-9820X are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-12100F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9820X CPU because of its 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 i3-12100F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.