Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i9-10980HK vs Core i3-13100 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10980HK beats the Core i3-13100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-13100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10980HK has significantly more cores than the Core i3-13100. Indeed, the Core i9-10980HK has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-13100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-13100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i3-13100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-13100.

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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.