Benchmark with Comet Lake i3 with multithreading for desktop comes online

Intel is said to be working on a tenth-generation Comet Lake Core i3 processor with Hyper-Threading. A recently surfaced benchmark tests an i3-10100 with four cores and eight threads, making it the first quad-core multithreading i3 for the desktop.

The Comet Lake i3-10100 SiSoftware benchmark was discovered by ontdekt @TUM_APISAK. The benchmark shows how the i3 has four cores and runs eight threads, meaning it will be the cheapest Intel chip to support multithreading. This happens at a speed of 3.6GHz, although this is an early version that may still be subject to change.

In addition to the extra threads, the i3 also has 6MB of L3 cache and 1MB of L2 cache. More details such as the boost or the maximum clock speed at which the chip has been tested are not yet known. With the new chips, Intel wants to compete with the Ryzen series. The 3000-series CPUs make multithreading much more accessible and cheaper, but they do have more competition with the Comet Lake i3s. For example, the current i3 generation does not yet support multithreading. The Comet Lake processors are made at 14nm.