Intel Core i3-4330 vs Intel Core i7-4600M

Core i3-4330 vs Core i7-4600M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4600M is faster than the Core i3-4330. Despite this, the Core i3-4330 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4330 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4600M. The Core i7-4600M outputs less heat than Core i3-4330 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i3-4330 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.