Intel Core i3-2370M vs Intel Core i5-3317U

Core i3-2370M vs Core i5-3317U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-2370M beats the Core i5-3317U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3317U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2370M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3317U. The Core i5-3317U outputs less heat than Core i3-2370M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-2370M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.