Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Core i3-9100F

Core i7-6600U vs Core i3-9100F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-9100F beats the Core i7-6600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i3-9100F has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6600U. Indeed, the Core i3-9100F has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6600U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-9100F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. Also, the Core i3-9100F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-9100F 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.