Intel Core i3-6100 vs Intel Core i5-6600K

Core i3-6100 vs Core i5-6600K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6600K 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6600K has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6100. Indeed, the Core i5-6600K has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6100. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6600K. A Core i3-6100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-6600K has more L2 cache than the Core i3-6100. The Core i5-6600K 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.