Intel Core i3-6100T vs Intel Core i5-6400

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-6400

Price

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$ 149.95

$ 99.99

$ 49.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1166 points

2127 points

82% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2253 points

3959 points

75% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

881 points

1617 points

83% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

849 points

1551 points

82% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.39 points

39.92 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

2948 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

1079 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2088 points

3046 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1054 points

1116 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

907th of 1,089

699th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-6100T vs Core i5-6400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6400 is faster than the Core i3-6100T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6400 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-6100T has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-6100T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6400. A Core i3-6100T CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6400 CPU because of its 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 i3-6100T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.