Intel Core i3-8109U vs Intel Core i5-6600

Core i3-8109U vs Core i5-6600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6600 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-6600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-8109U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8109U. Also, the Core i5-6600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-8109U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-6600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-8109U. The Core i5-6600 also has significantly 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.