Intel Core i3-6100T vs Intel Core i7-6600U

Core i3-6100T vs Core i7-6600U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6600U 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.

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 i3-6100T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. The Core i7-6600U outputs less heat than Core i3-6100T 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 i3-6100T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.