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General information Core i3-6100 Core i7-940
Launched Q4 2015 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1151 LGA1366
Series Name Intel Core i3 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Skylake-S Bloomfield
Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 21.6 %
Cores 2 50 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 50 % 8 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 51 W 60.8 % 130 W 0 %
Lithography 14 nm 68.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 2 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 3 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Core i3-6100 Core i7-940
Overall Score 40466 0 % 37154 8.2 %
Future Proof 50 % 0 % 10 % 80 %
Benchmark Score 2681 0 % 1905 28.9 %
Single Thread Score 2207.3 0 % 1313.9 40.5 %
Encrypting Data 1373.3 MB/s 68.2 % 4311.6 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 55.4 MB/s 12.8 % 63.5 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 7230.4 thousand/s 17.5 % 8766.4 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 13.9 millions/s 36.2 % 21.8 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 12624 millions/s 21.5 % 16089.5 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 7789.4 millions/s 0 % 6909 millions/s 11.3 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i3-6100, Core i7-940.

Average frames per second Core i3-6100 Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 74.9 FPS 65.0 FPS
High settings 119.9 FPS 104.1 FPS
Medium settings 149.8 FPS 130.1 FPS
Low settings 187.3 FPS 162.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 13.2 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i3-6100 Core i7-940
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 121.9 FPS 116.0 FPS
High settings 195.1 FPS 185.6 FPS
Medium settings 243.8 FPS 232.0 FPS
Low settings 304.8 FPS 290.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.8 %
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