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Intel Core i3-8100B vs Intel Core i7-5500U

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i3-8100B
Rank 2 - 73 %
Intel Core i7-5500U
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i3-8100B
Rank 2 - 50 %
Intel Core i7-5500U
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Core i3-8100B
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
1,265
Intel Core i7-5500U
2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz
956
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Core i3-8100B
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
3,784
Intel Core i7-5500U
2C / 4T · 2.90 GHz
1,933
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Intel Core i3-8100B
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
971
Intel Core i7-5500U
2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz
681
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Intel Core i3-8100B
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
3,329
Intel Core i7-5500U
2C / 4T · 2.90 GHz
1,737
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Core i3-8100B
Intel UHD Graphics 630
403
Intel Core i7-5500U
Intel HD Graphics 5500
365

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Intel Core i3-8100BIntel Core i7-5500U
FamilyIntel Core i3 (205)Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU groupIntel Core i 8000 (20)Intel Core i 5000U (16)
ArchitectureCoffee Lake SBroadwell U
Technology14 nm14 nm
SegmentDesktopNotebook
SocketBGA 1440BGA 1168
PredecessorIntel Core i7-4500U
SuccessorIntel Core i7-6500U

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Core i3-8100BIntel Core i7-5500U
CPU Cores / Threads4 / 42 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 4x 2x
Frequency: 3.60 GHz 2.40 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 3.00 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 2.90 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache6.00 MB4.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Core i3-8100BIntel Core i7-5500U
GPU nameIntel UHD Graphics 630Intel HD Graphics 5500
GPU frequency0.35 - 1.05 GHz0.30 - 0.95 GHz
CUs / Shader24 / 19224 / 192
Raytracing
Max. displays33
Max. GPU Memory64 GB16 GB
Technology14 nm14 nm
Release dateQ4/2017Q1/2015

NPU AI performance

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Intel Core i3-8100BIntel Core i7-5500U
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Core i3-8100BIntel Core i7-5500U
MemoryDDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory64 GB16 GB
Memory channels22
ECCNoNo
PCIe3.0 x 162.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth15.8 GB/s6.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Core i3-8100BIntel Core i7-5500U
TDP65 W15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.100 °C

Technical details

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Intel Core i3-8100BIntel Core i7-5500U
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, Windows 11, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release dateQ3/2018Q1/2015
Release price133 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Intel Core i3-8100B
Intel Core i3-8100B
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
Intel Core i7-5500U
Intel Core i7-5500U
2C / 4T · 2.40 - 3.00 GHz

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