Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Core i7-8565U

Core i3-7100 vs Core i7-8565U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8565U beats the Core i3-7100 in overall performance. 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 i7-8565U 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8565U. The Core i7-8565U 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 i7-8565U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-7100. The Core i7-8565U 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.