Intel Core i3-9100F Desktop Processor 4 Core Up to 4.2 GHz without Processor Graphics LGA1151 300 Series 65W

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When it comes to decompression work that figure is blown out to a massive 127% margin, making the Ryzen CPU worlds faster than the 9100F and just 3% slower than the 8700K.

See http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/hyper-threading/hyper-threading-technology.html?wapkw=hyper+threading for more information including details on which processors support Intel® HT Technology.The Division 2 is an ever CPU demanding title and here the 1600 AF was 43% faster than the 9100F when comparing the average frame rate and 33% faster for the 1% low result. The quad-core Core i3-9100F was hopeless in Battlefield V, pretty bad in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, fairly useless in The Division 2, and weak in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. When playing older or less demanding titles such as Far Cry New Dawn, the Core i3 did well, but so will the 1600 AF or any other hexa-core or better Ryzen processor. It offers you the best possible performance at 1080p resolution. Its performance is similar to the RTX 2070 but for a lesser price. You can also enjoy Ray Tracing and DLSS in games that support them.

Taking a look at performance in 7-zip we see that the 1600 AF is almost twice as fast as the 9100F for compression work, here it was a whopping 93% faster. In fact, the Ryzen processor was just 11% slower than the Core i7-8700K and in a completely different league to the Core i3 model.The Core i3-9100F is a 4-core/4-thread Coffee Lake CPU, which means it's nearly identical to an 8th, 7th and 6th-gen quad-core. It's also not overly different to a 4th-gen Haswell quad-core except for the upgrade to DDR4 memory.