Intel Core i3-7100U vs Intel Core i5-7500

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Price

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$ 1161.00
$ 73.80
$ 1087.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

960 points
2436 points
153% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1881 points
4535 points
141% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

720 points
1853 points
157% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

693 points
1778 points
156% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.26 points
47.70 points
147% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1556 points
3409 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

757 points
1243 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1571 points
3533 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

770 points
1283 points
66% 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
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.4 GHz
41% slightly 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
64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

965th of 1,092
641st of 1,092

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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