Intel Core i3-12100 vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Core i3-12100 vs Core i7-11600H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-12100 beats the Core i7-11600H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11600H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11600H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-12100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-12100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11600H. Despite this, the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-12100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.