Intel Core i3-6100 vs Intel Core i7-4500U

Core i3-6100 vs Core i7-4500U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-6100 is faster than the Core i7-4500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4500U. The Core i7-4500U 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.