Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Core i7-8700

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Price

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$ 129.99
$ 20.26 slightly less expensive
$ 150.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1766 points
4775 points
170% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3416 points
6751 points
97% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1328 points
4152 points
212% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1278 points
4008 points
213% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2347 points
4845 points
106% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.32 points
109.37 points
218% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2322 points
5865 points
152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1183 points
1478 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2485 points
5964 points
139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1265 points
1536 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W
27% slightly lower TDP
65 W

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
128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
384 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
1.5 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB
12 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

778th of 1,109
380th of 1,109

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

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