Intel Core i3-8100 vs Intel Core i7-5700HQ

Core i3-8100 vs Core i7-5700HQ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5700HQ beats the Core i3-8100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-8100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-5700HQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5700HQ. Also, the Core i3-8100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5700HQ outputs less heat than Core i3-8100 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i3-8100 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.