Intel Core i5-7500 vs Intel N100

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 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

2458 points

90% significantly better overall score

1289 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4565 points

72% significantly better gaming score

2647 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1872 points

101% significantly better multitasking score

928 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1797 points

102% significantly better heavy workload score

886 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2294 points

82% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1255 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.70 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

33.61 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

325% significantly higher clock speed

0.8 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

Identical

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

637th of 1,089

873rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7500 vs N100 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7500 is faster than the N100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the N100 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the N100. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the N100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7500. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i5-7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.