Intel Core i3-4340 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 31.04
$ 168.96 significantly less expensive
$ 200.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1509 points
2307 points
52% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3025 points
3862 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1116 points
1859 points
66% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1071 points
1784 points
66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1711 points
2842 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

805 points
933 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2126 points
3402 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1024 points
1123 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed
2.80 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
47 W
14% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

805th of 1,089
659th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Core i3-4340 vs Core i7-4900MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4340 is faster than the Core i7-4900MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4900MQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4900MQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4340 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4900MQ. The Core i7-4900MQ outputs less heat than Core i3-4340 thanks to a slightly 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.

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