Intel Core i9-10900K vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i9-10900K vs Core i3-13100 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900K is faster than the Core i3-13100. Despite this, the Core i3-13100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900K has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i3-13100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-13100. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-13100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. Despite this, the Core i9-10900K has significantly 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 i9-10900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.