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Intel Core i3-4100U vs Intel Core i5-7500

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 45 %

Intel Core i3-4100U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-7500

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 30 %

Intel Core i3-4100U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-7500

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

2C / 4T · 1.80 GHz

432

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

961

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

2C / 4T · 1.80 GHz

993

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

3,091

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 4400

320

Intel HD Graphics 630

422

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 1.80 GHz

73 cb

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

162 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 1.80 GHz

184 cb

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

617 cb

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

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 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

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100U	Intel Core i5-7500
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Core i 4000U (26)	Intel Core i 7000 (17)
Architecture	Haswell U	Kaby Lake S
Technology	22 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	BGA 1168	LGA 1151
Predecessor		Intel Core i5-6500
Successor		Intel Core i5-8500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100U	Intel Core i5-7500
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	2x	4x
Frequency:	1.80 GHz	3.40 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):		3.80 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		3.60 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	3.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100U	Intel Core i5-7500
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 4400	Intel HD Graphics 630
GPU frequency	0.20 - 1.00 GHz	0.35 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 160	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	64 GB
Technology	22 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q2/2013	Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100U	Intel Core i5-7500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100U	Intel Core i5-7500
Memory	LPDDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 12	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	6.0 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100U	Intel Core i5-7500
TDP	15 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4100U	Intel Core i5-7500
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	Q3/2013	Q1/2017
Release price		220 $
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 i3-4100U is 2.0 stars (1 ratings), while Intel Core i5-7500 has received 3.8 stars (61 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i3-4100U
2C / 4T · 1.80 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.40 - 3.80 GHz

★★★★★