Intel Core i3-2100 vs Intel Pentium 4417U

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
50% significantly better overall score
844 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2433 points
46% significantly better gaming score
1660 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

956 points
51% significantly better multitasking score
630 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

918 points
51% significantly better heavy workload score
604 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.20 points
17.80 points
17% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

878th of 1,089
993rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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Core i3-2100 vs Pentium 4417U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2100 performs better than the Pentium 4417U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 4417U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Pentium 4417U outputs less heat than Core i3-2100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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