i3 6100 vs i5 6400?

[becomeapro555]

May I ask for everyone's advice? Which is better? i3 6100 or i5 6400. I intended to play games such as DkS 2, CoD 3, AC Rogue and such alike.

TIA!

 

[smorizio]

the i5 is a more powerfull cpu a few games now need 4 cores to run they wont start with a 2 core cpu.

 

[becomeapro555]

So with the games I've specified, what can you recommend?

 

[13thmonkey]

the i5... but it also depends on whether that stops you getting a better GPU.

 

[becomeapro555]

I have Palit Geforce GTX 960 OC 2GB. Is this ok?

 

[smorizio]

the 960 not a bad entry level gaming card. the i5 let you dropp in a newer pascqal gpu latter on when you have the funds.

 

[13thmonkey]

if you already have the card then i5.

 

[stone_crash_wolf]

@smorizio - your reply shows just how missinformed you are. I3 are hyper-threaded which means they act like a quad core CPU, windows sees them as quad core CPUs, apps see them as quad core CPUs. You won't get a damn game telling you it can't run on the i3. That happens with the cheaper pentium processor ,that's a true dual core with no ht.
Now, between the 2 processors, in single threaded apps the i3 destroys the i5 due to 1ghz more effective speed. In multi threaded apps, the i5 can win IF all the cores are used. If he wanted an i5 he should've aimed for a 6500 at least. I personally went with the i3, I wanted strong single core performance and gaming, it does wonders in both the situations at 1080p. In Windows and apps this damn thing just rocks. I opted for a z170 motherboard and faster 2666 MHz ddr RAM and the i3. In a few years, if I really need to, I can easily jump to an i5 or i7 CPU.

 

[Epicness937]

now for the i3 vs i5 under these circumstances in gaming you with a 960 will notice a 2-5fps difference but the i5 having more physical cores helps in applications that are not optimized for hyper threading and it can also sustain a more powerful gpu without a bottleneck

 

[Karadjgne]

Not exactly. HyperThreading is where a single core runs 2 threads simultaneously. If the usage is low enough, this has 0 affect on speed as there is plenty of bandwidth to be shared. As previously said, because of its higher stock cl7ocks (yes you can actually OC an i3) the i3 is stronger than the slower i5 in single thread performance. Doesn't matter if 1 or 4 threads is used. The only time an i3 with HT suffers against an i5 is in serious heavy cpu usage, about 80% , in which case the single thread per core has ample bandwidth whereas the HT sharing a core gets cramped. There is no optimization for HyperThreading, a thread is a thread, and that's what games, windows, apps read. Available thread count, not core count.

So far I've only found 1 app that reads my i7 as 4 physical cores and 4 virtual cores. Every other diagnostic app has read core 0-7, worker 1-8 etc