Intel Core i3-6100 vs Intel Core i5-6300HQ

Core i3-6100 vs Core i5-6300HQ comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-6100 is faster than the Core i5-6300HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300HQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6300HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-6100 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6300HQ. The Core i5-6300HQ outputs less heat than Core i3-6100 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.