Intel Core i3-3220 vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1279 points
1361 points
6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2425 points
2723 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

968 points
1012 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

929 points
975 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.91 points
32.79 points
83% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
2.60 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

875th of 1,089
851st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-3220 vs Core i7-6498DU comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6498DU beats the Core i3-3220 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3220 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 i3-3220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6498DU.

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 i3-3220 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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