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

Core i5-10600K vs Core i3-12100F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10600K beats the Core i3-12100F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-10600K has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100F. Indeed, the Core i5-10600K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100F. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-12100F. Also, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100F outputs less heat than Core i5-10600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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