Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i5-10500 vs Core i3-13100 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-13100 performs better than the Core i5-10500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-10500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-13100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-13100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10500. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-13100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10500. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.