Core i3-7100 vs Core i5-8350U benchmarks
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8350U is faster than the Core i3-7100. Despite this, the Core i3-7100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8350U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7100 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8350U. The Core i5-8350U 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-8350U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-7100. The Core i5-8350U 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.
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