Intel Core i3-6100 Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-13

The Intel Core i3-6100 has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 6. gen of the Intel Core i3 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1151 socket and was released in Q3/2015. The Intel Core i3-6100 scores 901 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 2,064 points.

CPU lineage
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Name:	Intel Core i3-6100
Family:	Intel Core i3
CPU group:	Intel Core i 6000
Architecture:	Skylake S
Segment:	Desktop / Server
Generation:	6
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	Intel Core i3-7100

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i3-6100 has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i3-6100 is 3.70 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	2 / 4
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	2x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	3.70 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	--
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	--

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i3-6100 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i3-6100 uses the Intel HD Graphics 530, which has 192 texture shaders and 24 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency:	0.35 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.15 GHz
Compute units:	24
Shader:	192
Max. GPU Memory:	32 GB

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	9
Direct X:	12
Technology:	14 nm
Release date:	Q3/2015

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	Decode
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	Decode / Encode
VP9:	Decode

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode / Encode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 34.1 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR4-2133 DDR3-1600	34.1 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory:	64 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	Yes
PCIe:	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth:	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 51 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	51 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	--

Technical details

The Intel Core i3-6100 is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 3.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	14 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	LGA 1151
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	3.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date:	Q3/2015
Release price:	117 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i3-6100
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i3-6100 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-5575R 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	902
	Intel Core i5-6500 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	902
	Intel Core i5-8305G 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	902
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	901
	Intel Xeon D-1746TER 10C 20T @ 3.10 GHz	899
	AMD Ryzen 7 1700X 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	899
	Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz	898

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Celeron N5105 4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	2074
	Intel Core i3-4370 2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	2071
	Intel Core i5-7267U 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	2070
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	2064
	MediaTek Kompanio 900T 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	2056
	Intel Atom x6425E 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	2055
	Intel Core i5-7360U 2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	2055

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Core i7-7820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	1214
	Intel Xeon Gold 6150 18C 36T @ 3.70 GHz	1213
	Intel Core i5-8257U 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	1212
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	1208
	Intel Xeon E5-1630 v3 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	1208
	Intel Core i7-4790S 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	1205
	Intel Core i3-10110U 2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz	1204

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	AMD FX-8350 8C 8T @ 4.10 GHz	2361
	Intel Core i3-7101TE 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	2361
	Intel Core i3-8145UE 2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	2356
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	2355
	Apple A10X Fusion 6C 6T @ 2.36 GHz	2354
	Intel Core i7-7600U 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	2354
	Apple A12 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz	2353

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD EPYC 7232P 8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz	372
	AMD EPYC 7252 8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz	372
	Intel Core i5-4670K 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	371
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	368
	Intel Celeron G5920 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	368
	Intel Pentium Gold G6500T 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	367
	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	367

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 7 2700U 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	935
	Intel Core i5-4590T 4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	935
	Intel Pentium Silver N6005 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	925
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	916
	Intel Core i3-8109U 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	916
	Intel Pentium Gold G5500 2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	916
	AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz	913

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Core i5-6600K Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz	442
	Intel Core i7-6700 Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz	442
	Intel Core i7-6700K Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz	442
	Intel Core i3-6100 Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz	442
	Intel Core i5-10210U Intel UHD Graphics (Comet Lake) @ 1.10 GHz	441
	AMD RX-416GD AMD Radeon R6 (Merlin Falcon) @ 0.58 GHz	440
	Intel Core i7-4940MX Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.35 GHz	432

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	AMD FX-4130 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	4154
	Intel Core i5-2500 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	4150
	Intel Pentium J6426 4C 4T @ 2.00 GHz	4150
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	4148
	Intel Core i7-7660U 2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	4132
	Intel Pentium Gold G6400 2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz	4129
	Intel Core i5-7287U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	4129

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.


	Intel Core i5-3470 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	833
	Intel Core i3-1115G4 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	849
	Intel Core i3-4170 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	899.1
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	947.2
	Intel Core i3-4330 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	953
	Intel Core i7-6567U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	971.9
	Intel Core i3-4130 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1017.8

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Core i5-8250U 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	361
	Intel Core i5-6400 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	359
	Intel Core i5-7300HQ 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	359
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	357
	AMD Ryzen 5 1400 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	357
	Intel Core i5-4460 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	353
	Intel Core i5-3470 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	350

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Core i3-7100 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	1104
	Intel Pentium Gold G5420 2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	1077
	Intel Core i3-10110U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	1071
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	1045
	Intel Pentium Gold G5400 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	1044
	AMD Athlon 3000G 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	1040
	Intel Core i3-8145U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	1039

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	153
	Intel Xeon E3-1275 v3 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	153
	Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	153
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	152
	AMD Ryzen 7 2700E 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	152
	Intel Core i7-6950X 10C 20T @ 3.50 GHz	152
	Intel Pentium Gold G5400 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	152

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Athlon 240GE 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	397
	Intel Pentium Gold G5420 2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	395
	Intel Core i7-7560U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	394
	Intel Core i3-6100 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	392
	Intel Pentium G4600 2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	392
	AMD Athlon 3000G 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	388
	Intel Core i3-4370 2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	387

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,399 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,372 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,648 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,599 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
641 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
588 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,925 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,319 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
222 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
725 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,102 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,097 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
941 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
937 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
825 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries

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