Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Core i5-6600K

Core i3-7100 vs Core i5-6600K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6600K is faster than the Core i3-7100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6600K has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7100 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-7100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6600K. A Core i3-7100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-6600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-7100. The Core i5-6600K also has significantly more 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.