Intel Core i7-7600U vs Intel N100

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 2 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

1234 points

1289 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2391 points

2647 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

922 points

928 points

0.65% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

882 points

886 points

0.45% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.63 points

33.61 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

250% significantly higher clock speed

0.8 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

892nd of 1,089

873rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7600U vs N100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7600U beats the N100 in overall performance. Despite this, the N100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the N100 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7600U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7600U has a significantly higher clock speed than the N100.

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 i7-7600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.