Intel Core i5-10600 vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Core i5-10600 vs Core i3-12100F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10600 is faster than the Core i3-12100F. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-10600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-12100F has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-10600 and Core i3-12100F are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-10600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100F outputs less heat than Core i5-10600 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-10600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.