Intel Core i3-9100 vs Intel Core i5-8259U

Core i3-9100 vs Core i5-8259U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-9100 is faster than the Core i5-8259U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8259U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-8259U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-9100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. Also, the Core i3-9100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8259U outputs less heat than Core i3-9100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i3-9100 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.