Intel Core i3-7100U vs Intel Core i5-2430M

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

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Intel Core i5-2430M

Price

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$ 1161.00

$ 62.02

$ 1098.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

960 points

1116 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1881 points

2161 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

720 points

838 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

693 points

805 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.26 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

17.39 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1556 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

955 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

757 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1571 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

875 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

770 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

438 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

Identical

2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

962nd of 1,089

919th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-7100U vs Core i5-2430M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2430M performs better than the Core i3-7100U. Despite this, the Core i3-7100U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i3-7100U and Core i5-2430M are identical in this regard. A Core i3-7100U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2430M CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-7100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.