Intel Core i3-6100U vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

Core i3-6100U vs Core 2 Duo E8500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-6100U is faster than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-6100U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6100U. A Core i3-6100U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8500 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 i3-6100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.