Intel Core i3-8130U vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Core i3-8130U vs Core i7-6498DU benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-8130U beats the Core i7-6498DU in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6498DU 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 i7-6498DU has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8130U. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

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 i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.