Intel Core i3-6100U vs Intel Core i7-5600U

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-5600U

Price

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$ 1352.00

$ 1081.00 significantly less expensive

$ 2433.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1011 points

1056 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2003 points

2095 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

752 points

783 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

722 points

750 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.92 points

26.29 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1530 points

1705 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

741 points

875 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1545 points

1765 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

753 points

926 points

22% 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

2.6 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 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

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

944th of 1,089

933rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3

5th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-6100U vs Core i7-5600U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5600U beats the Core i3-6100U in overall performance. 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 i7-5600U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6100U. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.