Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i3-13100 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-13100 performs better than the Core i9-8950HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-8950HK in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores with 6 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 i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-13100 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-8950HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.