Intel Core i3-8350K vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Core i3-8350K vs Core i3-12100F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-12100F is faster than the Core i3-8350K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8350K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-12100F has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8350K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-12100F. The Core i3-12100F outputs less heat than Core i3-8350K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i3-8350K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.