Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Core i5-2410M

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.99
$ 42.12
$ 87.87 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1764 points
85% significantly better overall score
950 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3405 points
92% significantly better gaming score
1767 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1328 points
82% significantly better multitasking score
729 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1278 points
82% significantly better heavy workload score
701 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.32 points
182% significantly higher Blender score
12.13 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2322 points
167% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
867 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1183 points
162% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
450 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2485 points
192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
851 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1265 points
194% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
429 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
69% significantly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W
35 W
45% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
16 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
Identical
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB
Identical
3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

764th of 1,089
967th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Core i3-7100 vs Core i5-2410M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-7100 is faster than the Core i5-2410M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2410M 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 i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2410M. The Core i5-2410M outputs less heat than Core i3-7100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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 i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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