Intel Core i3-8109U vs Intel Core i7-5600U

Core i3-8109U vs Core i7-5600U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5600U 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8109U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5600U. Also, the Core i3-8109U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5600U 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-8109U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.