The Intel Core i3-13100F Review: Finding Value in Intel's Cheapest Core Chip

CPU Benchmark Performance: Science

Our Science section covers all the tests that typically resemble more scientific-based workloads and instruction sets. For our 2023 CPU suite, we've also added SciMark 2.0 which measures numerical kernels and various computational routines found in numeric coding.

We are using DDR5-4800 memory on the Intel Core i3-13100F as per the JEDEC specifications. Other recent chips, such as Intel's 13th/12th Gen Core series and Ryzen 7000 processors, are also tested at the rated JEDEC specifications. We tested the aforementioned platforms with the following settings:

• DDR5-5600B CL46 - Intel 13th Gen
• DDR5-5200 CL44 - Ryzen 7000
• DDR5-4800 (B) CL40 - Intel 12th Gen
• DDR5-4800 (B) CL40 - Intel 13th Gen Core i3 series

All other CPUs such as Ryzen 5000 and 3000 were tested at the relevant JEDEC settings as per the processor's individual memory support with DDR4.

Science

AMD's support for AVX-512 instruction sets with its Ryzen 7000 processors and Intel's decision to omit this in its desktop processors for its 12th and 13th Gen Core series chips means that the Ryzen 5 7600, already overpowered in this fight, excels even in this area in comparison to the Core i3-13100F.

Otherwise, as expected, both the Core i3-13100F and the previous Core i3-12300 perform similarly to each other. This also means the Ryzen 5300G gets left behind in most testing; there's only so far AMD can get on more limited clockspeeds and cache.