Intel Core i9-14900K vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i9-14900K vs Core i3-13100 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900K 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i3-13100 that 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 i9-14900K. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-13100. The Core i9-14900K also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-14900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.