Want to spend less than $150 on a processor? Intel's new Core i3-8100 is pitched against AMD's Ryzen 3 1300X so which is the fastest?

There's been a significant change between generations - Coffee Lake vs. Kaby Lake - for the Core i3 family. Intel has taken the step of adding two more physical cores whilst keeping the thread ...

The Core i3-8100 was able to edge out the Ryzen 3 1300X though I suspect with a little tinkering the Ryzen CPU might be able to claim the lead here.

Intel's busted out a range of brand-new processors, known as Core i3, i5 and i7, all of which are designed to put the 'core' back in 'cor blimey' ...

Out of the box, the 21.5-inch ‌iMac‌ featured the Intel Core i3 8100 processor, 8GB of RAM, the Radeon Pro 555X graphics card, and 256GB of SSD storage.

Geforce gtx 1050 Ti + i3 8100 vs gtx 1060 3GB + Pentium G4560 Games: pubg Battlefield 1 - 01:06 The Witcher 3 - 02:24 Project Cars 2 - 03:57 Grand Theft Auto V - 05:48 Mass Effect Andromeda - 07: ...

gtx 1080 + i3 8100 vs gtx 1070 + i5 8400 Games: The Witcher 3 Project Cars - 01:03 pubg - 02:15 Fallout 4 - 03:16 Battlefield 1 - 04:35 Grand Theft Auto V - 05:51 Hitman - 07:50 Arma 3 Apex - 09: ...

Starting with the Core i3-8100 we see that the faster DDR4-3200 memory boosts the average frame rate by 10% and that was enough to overtake the stock R5 1500X.