Intel Core i3-8100 vs Intel Core i7-8700K

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Price

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$ 169.99
$ 24.01 slightly less expensive
$ 194.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2549 points
5126 points
101% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4731 points
7099 points
50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1938 points
4495 points
131% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1859 points
4348 points
133% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3346 points
5074 points
51% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.29 points
126.15 points
166% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3299 points
6462 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points
1549 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3471 points
6565 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1267 points
1621 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.7 GHz
30% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
1.5 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
12 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

634th of 1,114
349th of 1,114

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

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