Intel Core i3-8109U vs Intel Core i7-4600U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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

1040 points

1087 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1956 points

2192 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

794 points

800 points

0.76% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

766 points

767 points

0.13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.82 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

16.74 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2371 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1589 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1117 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

847 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2453 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1627 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1187 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

880 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

42% much higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

15 W

86% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

938th of 1,089

926th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-8109U vs Core i7-4600U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4600U is faster than the Core i3-8109U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8109U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-8109U has a much higher clock speed than the Core i7-4600U. Also, the Core i3-8109U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4600U outputs less heat than Core i3-8109U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-8109U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.