Intel Core i3-7100U vs Intel Core i5 M 560

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 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

960 points

1% slightly better overall score

947 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1881 points

1902 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

720 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

699 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

693 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

670 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.26 points

82% significantly higher Blender score

10.56 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

2.67 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

988th of 1,118

993rd of 1,118

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-7100U vs Core i5 M 560 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-7100U performs better than the Core i5 M 560. Despite this, the Core i5 M 560 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5 M 560 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-7100U.

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.