Intel Core i3-4170 vs Intel Core i7-2670QM

Core i3-4170 vs Core i7-2670QM benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2670QM performs better than the Core i3-4170. Despite this, the Core i3-4170 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-2670QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4170 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4170. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4170 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2670QM. The Core i7-2670QM outputs less heat than Core i3-4170 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.