Core i3-7100U vs A8-9600 specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the A8-9600 beats the Core i3-7100U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7100U in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A8-9600 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7100U. Indeed, the A8-9600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7100U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-9600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-7100U. A Core i3-7100U CPU outputs less heat than a A8-9600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-7100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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