Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i7-5960X vs Core i3-13100 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-13100 is faster than the Core i7-5960X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5960X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-5960X has significantly more cores with 8 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 i3-13100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5960X. Also, the Core i3-13100 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-5960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.