Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i7-11700K vs Core i3-13100 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700K is faster than the Core i3-13100. Despite this, the Core i3-13100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-11700K has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i3-13100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-13100. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-13100 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700K. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-13100.

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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.