Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i9-11900K vs Core i3-13100 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11900K is faster than the Core i3-13100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-13100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-11900K has significantly more cores than the Core i3-13100. Indeed, the Core i9-11900K has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-13100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-13100. Also, the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-13100 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900K. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K 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 i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.