Intel Core i5-13400 vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i5-13400 vs Core i3-13100 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13400 is faster than the Core i3-13100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-13100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13400 has significantly more cores with 10 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 i5-13400. Despite this, the Core i5-13400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-13100. The Core i5-13400 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-13400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.