Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs Intel Core i3-2130

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Price

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$ 1918.00
$ 47.09
$ 1870.91 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1438 points
3% slightly better overall score
1392 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2667 points
0.19% slightly better gaming score
2662 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1096 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1053 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
1007 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.90 points
164% significantly higher Blender score
14.70 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2685 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1298 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

970 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
574 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2777 points
160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1064 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1025 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
521 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.4 GHz
47% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
44% significantly lower TDP
65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

841st of 1,114
858th of 1,114

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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