Intel Core i7-5600U vs Intel N100

Core i7-5600U vs N100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5600U beats the N100 in overall performance. Despite this, the N100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the N100 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-5600U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-5600U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N100. In terms of cache, the N100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-5600U. 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 i7-5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.