Intel Core i3 2100 Sandy Bridge vs. Core i3 7100 Kabylake Performance

The Himeno workload is also close to twice as fast with the Core i3 7100. Himeno can make heavy use of AVX 2.0 that's found on the i3-7100 rather than just AVX 1.0 with the i3-2100.

While the system power consumption ended up being much lower with the i3-7100 that was delivering greater performance.

John The Ripper's Blowfish crypto performance was also more than double the speed of the i3-2100.

The TTSIOD results were measurably faster with the i3-7100.

Building the Linux kernel on the i3-2100 took almost seven minutes while under the i3-7100 it dropped to under four minutes.