Intel Core i9-10900 vs Intel Core i3-3217U

Core i9-10900 vs Core i3-3217U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900 beats the Core i3-3217U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3217U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i3-3217U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-3217U. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3217U. The Core i3-3217U outputs less heat than Core i9-10900 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.