Intel Core i5-5300U vs Intel N100

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel 4 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

1153 points
1289 points
11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2272 points
2647 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

860 points
928 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

826 points
886 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.25 points
33.61 points
38% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
187% significantly higher clock speed
0.8 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB
6 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

909th of 1,089
873rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Core i5-5300U vs N100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the N100 performs better than the Core i5-5300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5300U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the N100 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-5300U. Indeed, the N100 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-5300U. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-5300U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N100. The info from our database shows that the N100 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-5300U. The N100 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 i5-5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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