Intel Core i3-13100 vs Intel Core i5-12600H

Core i3-13100 vs Core i5-12600H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-13100 beats the Core i5-12600H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12600H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12600H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i3-13100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-13100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12600H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-13100 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12600H. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-13100.

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 i3-13100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.