Intel Core i3-9100 vs Intel Core i7-10850H

Core i3-9100 vs Core i7-10850H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10850H is faster than the Core i3-9100. Despite this, the Core i3-9100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-9100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-9100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-9100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10850H. Despite this, the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10850H 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-10850H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-9100. The Core i7-10850H also has significantly more 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.