Intel quietly launches Core i3-10100F
Intel has now listed the Core i3-10100F, a processor that wasn’t part of the chipmaker’s initial 10th Generation Comet Lake-S launch, on its ARK website. The chip still isn’t on the company’s master price list, but it’s perfectly positioned to compete against AMD’s Ryzen 3 3300X that has largely been absent from retail channels since its launch five months ago.
The Core i3-10100F is poised to be the new budget gaming champion. The 14nm Comet Lake chip arrives with four cores and eight threads clocked at 3.6GHz and a boost clock speed of 4.3GHz. With a 65W TDP (thermal power design), the quad-core part has relatively low cooling requirements, which is good news for budget builders.