Intel Core i3-4340 vs Intel Core i7-3612QM

Core i3-4340 vs Core i7-3612QM comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3612QM beats the Core i3-4340 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4340 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-3612QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4340 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4340. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4340 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3612QM. The Core i7-3612QM outputs less heat than Core i3-4340 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 i3-4340 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.