Intel Core i3-8109U vs Intel Core i7-7600U

Core i3-8109U vs Core i7-7600U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7600U 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.

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 slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7600U. Despite this, the Core i7-7600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-7600U 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.

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.