![]() The i3-2100 also lacked grunt when it came to our multi-tasking test – its score of 1,196 was eclipsed by the i5-2500K’s score of 1,423. Intel clearly has a significant lead over AMD in terms of clock-for-clock performance. However, the i3-2100 is still a match for AMD’s quad-core CPUs – the Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition, which we'll be reviewing soon, could only manage 1,771, despite being clocked at 3.7GHz and sporting two additional cores. It scored 1,838, whereas the i5-2500K boasted a score of 2,649. However, our HandBrake H.264 video encoding test confirmed our fears that, being a dual-core CPU, the i3-2100 will struggle against quad-core chips in multithreaded tasks. It was also much faster than AMD’s Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition CPU. Incredibly, the i3-2100 was just 16 points short of topping the LGA1366 Core i7-950 as well, which shows that Sandy Bridge really does make lower-echelon LGA1366 CPUs look redundant. In our Gimp image editing test, the i3-2100 produced a score of 1,360 – only 234 points short of the score of the i5-2500K. Even so, we couldn’t help but be surprised at the remarkable performance from this sub-£100 CPU. PerformanceWith the i3-2100 essentially locked to its maximum frequency of 3.1GHz due to the locked multiplier and lack of Turbo Boost, we were forced to use a single run of benchmarks, rather than producing our usual stock and overclocked results. ![]()
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