Intel Core i5-10600K vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i5-10600K vs Core i3-13100 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-13100 performs better than the Core i5-10600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-10600K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-13100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-13100. Also, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i3-13100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10600K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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. Indeed, the Core i5-10600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.