Intel Core i3-1220P vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Core i3-1220P vs Core i7 X 990 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-1220P is faster than the Core i7 X 990. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7 X 990 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 990 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P. The info from our database shows that the Core i7 X 990 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-1220P

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-1220P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.