Intel Core i7-860 vs Intel Core i3-6098P

Core i7-860 vs Core i3-6098P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6098P beats the Core i7-860 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6098P. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6098P. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6098P. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6098P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-860. The Core i3-6098P outputs less heat than Core i7-860 thanks to a 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 i7-860 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.