Intel Core i5-6300U vs Intel Core i3-4370

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 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

1069 points
1591 points
48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2091 points
3153 points
50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

801 points
1182 points
47% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

769 points
1135 points
47% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.45 points
21.44 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1313 points
1825 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

587 points
832 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.8 GHz
58% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
259% significantly lower TDP
54 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
16
33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

929th of 1,089
789th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-6300U vs Core i3-4370 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4370 is faster than the Core i5-6300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300U 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 i3-4370 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6300U. A Core i5-6300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-4370 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-6300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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