Intel Core i3-3110M vs Intel Core i7-3540M

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-3540M

Price

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$ 420.00

$ 108.02

$ 311.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

916 points

1405 points

53% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1808 points

2845 points

57% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

682 points

1034 points

51% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

655 points

993 points

51% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.17 points

19.50 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

800 points

803 points

0.38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

391 points

442 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

816 points

1163 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

391 points

569 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

Identical

35 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

976th of 1,089

837th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-3110M vs Core i7-3540M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3540M beats the Core i3-3110M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3110M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3110M. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i3-3110M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.