Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel N97

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1764 points

3% slightly better overall score

1707 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3405 points

4% slightly better gaming score

3251 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1328 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1290 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1278 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1238 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.32 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

33.82 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

95% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

2 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB

6 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

764th of 1,089

773rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-7100 vs N97 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-7100 is faster than the N97. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the N97 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the N97 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7100 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N97. The info from our database shows that the N97 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-7100. The N97 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.