I3 or I5?

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Running Channels (Windows) on an OptiPlex 5060 with a core I5-8500T processor. I run some Dockers and have several sources in Channels (800 channels or so). Seems to be slow to respond from the web console and commercial detection hits the processor pretty good.

Have an OptiPlex 3080 with an I3-10100T I could repurpose.
The I5 has 6 cores/6 threads and more cache while the I3 has 4 cores/8 threads and a higher base clock speed. Reading old forum posts it seems that more threads is better so the I3 would be the way to go?

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I3-10100T

10th gen is newer and preferable

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Seems to be slow to respond from the web console and commercial detection hits the processor pretty good.

If you weren't already using the 8th gen i5, I'd be inclined to recommend the 10th gen i3 as well. However, looking at an aggregation of benchmarks for these two processors, I don't believe switching horses is going to be worth the effort:

You might consider selling both, and getting a 13th gen i3 instead -- then you'd be on to something: