Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Core i3-10100F

Core i9-9900K vs Core i3-10100F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9900K performs better than the Core i3-10100F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10100F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900K has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-10100F has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10100F. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-9900K and Core i3-10100F are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-10100F outputs less heat than Core i9-9900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.