Intel Core i3-6100 vs Intel Core i5-8250U

Core i3-6100 vs Core i5-8250U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8250U 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 i5-8250U has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6100. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8250U. The Core i5-8250U 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-6100. The Core i5-8250U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.