Intel Core i3-6100 vs Intel Core i5-13600KF

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 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
$ 229.34 significantly less expensive
$ 299.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1570 points
12268 points
681% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3092 points
14110 points
356% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1169 points
11683 points
899% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1123 points
11560 points
929% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2255 points
10318 points
357% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.35 points
305.49 points
906% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2267 points
14473 points
538% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1167 points
2622 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2359 points
15467 points
555% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points
2754 points
129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
14
599% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
20
400% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.49 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W
145% significantly lower TDP
125 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
8 MiB
1500% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
24 MiB
499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

790th of 1,089
47th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2022 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i3-6100 vs Core i5-13600KF benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600KF beats the Core i3-6100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13600KF has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6100. Indeed, the Core i5-13600KF has 14 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6100. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600KF. A Core i3-6100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-13600KF CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13600KF has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-6100. The Core i5-13600KF also has significantly more L3 cache.

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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