Intel Core i3-6100 vs Intel Core i5-2520M

Core i3-6100 vs Core i5-2520M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-6100 is faster than the Core i5-2520M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2520M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2520M. The Core i5-2520M outputs less heat than Core i3-6100 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 i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.