Intel Core i3-2100 vs Intel Core i5-4200H

Core i3-2100 vs Core i5-4200H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4200H beats the Core i3-2100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2100 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4200H. The Core i5-4200H outputs less heat than Core i3-2100 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.