Intel Core i3-3110M vs Intel Core i7 Q 720

Core i3-3110M vs Core i7 Q 720 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 Q 720 beats the Core i3-3110M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-3110M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 Q 720 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-3110M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-3110M. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-3110M has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7 Q 720.

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.