Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Core i3-2100

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-2100

Price

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$ 2749.00

$ 49.00

$ 2700.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1166 points

1270 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2340 points

2433 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

858 points

956 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

820 points

918 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.09 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

15.20 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

2.6 GHz

3.1 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 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

908th of 1,089

878th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6600U vs Core i3-2100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2100 performs better than the Core i7-6600U. Despite this, the Core i7-6600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-2100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. A Core i7-6600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-2100 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.