Intel Core i3-7100U vs Intel Pentium G860

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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Intel Pentium G860

Price

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$ 1161.00

$ 70.73

$ 1090.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

960 points

3% slightly better overall score

927 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1881 points

1998 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

720 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

666 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

693 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

639 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.26 points

87% significantly higher Blender score

10.26 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1571 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

748 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

770 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

447 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

962nd of 1,089

973rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2011 August

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 Pentium G860 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-7100U is faster than the Pentium G860. Despite this, the Pentium G860 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-7100U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G860 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7100U.

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.