Core i3-7100 vs Core i5-6400T specs and performance
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-7100 is faster than the Core i5-6400T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6400T in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6400T has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7100. Indeed, the Core i5-6400T has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7100. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6400T. The Core i5-6400T 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.
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 i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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