Core i5 will be better for media creation, multitasking, and will be an improvement if you regularly complain about your PC being slow. Core i3 will be sufficient for people who want a PC that’s faster than an Atom-powered tablet or laptop, but don’t want to spend any more than they have to.

Top 3 Best i3 CPU for Gaming

• Intel Core i3-8100 Coffee Lake Quad-Core 3.60 GHz LGA 1151 (300 Series)
• Intel Core i3-6100 Skylake 3M 3.7 GHz LGA 1151.
• Intel Core i3-7350K Kaby Lake Dual-Core 4.2 GHz LGA 1151.

Conclusion. When you’re building a gaming PC, your graphics card should always take precedence over your processor – it’s doing the bulk of the work when gaming after all. An i3 8100 paired with a GTX 1070 is going to outperform an i7 8700K paired with a GTX 1050 Ti every single day.

The 10th-gen Core i3 range is quite interesting, all models feature 4 cores and 8 threads thanks to Hyper-Threading support. Finally, the most powerful Core i3 model available right now is the 10320, which runs at even higher clock speeds, boosting the base to 3.8 GHz and the max turbo to 4.6 GHz.

On the Adobe’s website, the minimum requirement for Photoshop is a Intel Core 2 Duo. An i3 came out later, so all generations are better than the Core 2 Duo. Therefore you will be able to run Photoshop. However, the better generation you i3 is will contribute to how well you will run Photoshop.

Entry-level-low-power Laptop processor released in 2019 with 4 cores and 8 threads. With base clock at 1.2GHz, max speed at 3.4GHz, and a 15W power rating. Core i3-1005G1 is based on the Ice Lake U 10nm family and part of the Core i3 series….Photoshop CC 2019 Benchmark.

The i3 will be just fine. Photoshop likes clock speed more than it likes cores.

Overall, AMD chips are better for graphics, pretty much nothing else. Either AMD or Intel processor is good running Photoshop. You should look for good GPU while working with image editing software.

Currently, the fastest CPU for Photoshop are the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X, and Ryzen 9 5950X – all of which perform within a few percent of each other. Due to this, the more affordable Ryzen 7 5800X is a very strong choice for Photoshop as it will free up some of your budget for more RAM, faster storage, etc.