Intel Core i3-9100 vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs Intel 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2845 points

2957 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5304 points

31% slightly better gaming score

4037 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2160 points

2609 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2073 points

2522 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.00 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

52.64 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.37 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

12 MiB

1100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

561st of 1,089

543rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-9100 vs Core i7 X 980 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 X 980 is faster than the Core i3-9100. Despite this, the Core i3-9100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-9100. Indeed, the Core i7 X 980 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-9100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-9100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-9100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7 X 980. The info from our database shows that the Core i7 X 980 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-9100

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