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Intel Core i5-6500T vs Intel Core i3-4100M

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 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6500T

Rank 2 - 74 %

Intel Core i3-4100M

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6500T

Rank 2 - 54 %

Intel Core i3-4100M

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

1,056

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

768

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

3,068

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,645

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

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

785

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

586

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

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

2,449

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,384

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 530

403

Intel HD Graphics 4600

368

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

132 cb

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

99 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

464 cb

2C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

251 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

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

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500T	Intel Core i3-4100M
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	Intel Core i 4000M/4000H (38)
Architecture	Skylake S	Haswell H
Technology	14 nm	22 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151	PGA 946
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i5-7500T

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500T	Intel Core i3-4100M
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	2 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	2x
Frequency:	2.50 GHz	2.50 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.10 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.80 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	6.00 MB	3.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500T	Intel Core i3-4100M
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.05 GHz	0.20 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	20 / 160
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	2 GB
Technology	14 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q2/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500T	Intel Core i3-4100M
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500T	Intel Core i3-4100M
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500T	Intel Core i3-4100M
TDP	35 W	37 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500T	Intel Core i3-4100M
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	Q3/2015	Q4/2013
Release price
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 i5-6500T is 4.0 stars (42 ratings), while Intel Core i3-4100M has received 2.4 stars (5 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-6500T
4C / 4T · 2.50 - 3.10 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★