Intel Core i3-2100 vs Intel Core i5-6198DU

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1270 points

3% slightly better overall score

1229 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2433 points

2443 points

0.41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

956 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

913 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

918 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

876 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.20 points

21.63 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

902nd of 1,118

918th of 1,118

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Core i3-2100 vs Core i5-6198DU specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-2100 is faster than the Core i5-6198DU. Despite this, the Core i5-6198DU has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count 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 i5-6198DU.

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 i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.