Intel Core i3-6100 vs Intel Core i5-11400F

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 70.65
$ 79.44 significantly less expensive
$ 150.09

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1570 points
5669 points
261% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3092 points
8320 points
169% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1169 points
4844 points
314% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1123 points
4676 points
316% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2255 points
5719 points
153% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.35 points
128.47 points
323% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2267 points
7380 points
225% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1167 points
1895 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2359 points
7590 points
221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points
1979 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
42% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W
27% slightly lower TDP
65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

790th of 1,089
277th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Core i3-6100 vs Core i5-11400F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400F is faster than the Core i3-6100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11400F has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-6100 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400F. A Core i3-6100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11400F CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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