Intel Core i3-8109U vs Intel Core i5-6198DU

Compare Intel 8th 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

1204 points
1221 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2237 points
2390 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

926 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
912 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

888 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
875 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.82 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
21.63 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
Identical
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

929th of 1,125
922nd of 1,125

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-8109U vs Core i5-6198DU benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6198DU beats the Core i3-8109U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8109U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8109U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6198DU. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i3-8109U also has slightly more 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. Indeed, the Core i3-8109U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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