Intel Core i3-8100 vs Intel Core i5-12600K

Core i3-8100 vs Core i5-12600K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600K is faster than the Core i3-8100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600K has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8100. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-8100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8100. Also, the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-8100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600K 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. For instance, the Core i3-8100 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.