Intel Core i3-3217U vs Intel Pentium N3710

Core i3-3217U vs Pentium N3710 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3217U beats the Pentium N3710 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N3710 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium N3710 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-3217U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-3217U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N3710. The Pentium N3710 outputs less heat than Core i3-3217U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i3-3217U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.