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Intel Core i3-4100M vs Intel Xeon D-1521

Last updated: 2026-04-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 81 %

Intel Core i3-4100M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Xeon D-1521

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 45 %

Intel Core i3-4100M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Xeon D-1521

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

768

4C / 8T · 2.70 GHz

912

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,645

4C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

3,327

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

586

4C / 8T · 2.70 GHz

748

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,384

4C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

3,163

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	Intel Xeon D-1521
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	Intel Xeon D (79)
CPU group	Intel Core i 4000M/4000H (38)	Intel Xeon D-1500 (22)
Architecture	Haswell H	Broadwell
Technology	22 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	PGA 946	BGA 1667
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	Intel Xeon D-1521
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	2x	4x
Frequency:	2.50 GHz	2.40 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):		2.70 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		2.40 GHz
L2-Cache		6.00 MB
L3-Cache	3.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	Intel Xeon D-1521
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.20 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 160	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
Technology	22 nm
Release date	Q2/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	Intel Xeon D-1521
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	Intel Xeon D-1521
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	2.0 x 16	3.0 x 32
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s	31.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	Intel Xeon D-1521
TDP	37 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100M	Intel Xeon D-1521
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2013	Q4/2015
Release price		216 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i3-4100M is 2.4 stars (5 ratings), while Intel Xeon D-1521 has received 4.7 stars (3 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i3-4100M
2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Xeon D-1521
4C / 8T · 2.40 - 2.70 GHz

★★★★★