Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel Core i3-4160

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 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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Intel Core i3-4160

Price

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$ 1793.00

$ 98.00

$ 1695.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1306 points

1444 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2566 points

2813 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

974 points

1081 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

934 points

1038 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.12 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

23.82 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1641 points

1850 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

719 points

962 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

44% 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

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

870th of 1,089

823rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

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

Yes

Core i7-6500U vs Core i3-4160 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4160 is faster than the Core i7-6500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4160 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6500U. A Core i7-6500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-4160 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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.