Intel Core i5-6600 vs Intel Core i3-6098P

Core i5-6600 vs Core i3-6098P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6600 beats the Core i3-6098P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6098P in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6600 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6098P. Indeed, the Core i5-6600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6098P. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6098P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6600. The Core i3-6098P outputs less heat than Core i5-6600 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-6600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-6098P. The Core i5-6600 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. For instance, the Core i5-6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.