Intel Core i3-6100U vs Intel Core i5-4200M

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

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Intel Core i5-4200M

Price

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$ 1352.00

$ 578.00

$ 774.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1011 points

1121 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2003 points

2225 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

752 points

833 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

722 points

799 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.92 points

18.84 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1530 points

1625 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

741 points

849 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1545 points

1716 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

753 points

876 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.5 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

146% significantly lower TDP

37 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

944th of 1,089

918th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2013 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-6100U vs Core i5-4200M comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4200M performs better than the Core i3-6100U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4200M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6100U. A Core i3-6100U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4200M CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-6100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.