Intel Core i3-7100U vs Intel Core i3-10100F

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i3 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1161.00
$ 100.00
$ 1061.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

960 points
3491 points
263% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1881 points
5569 points
196% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

720 points
2875 points
299% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

693 points
2761 points
298% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.26 points
76.92 points
299% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1556 points
4424 points
184% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

757 points
1401 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1571 points
4497 points
186% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

770 points
1449 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
16
33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

962nd of 1,089
483rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
10th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i3-7100U vs Core i3-10100F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-10100F is faster than the Core i3-7100U. 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 Core i3-10100F has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7100U. Indeed, the Core i3-10100F has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7100U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7100U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-10100F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7100U. A Core i3-7100U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-10100F CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i3-7100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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