Intel Core i3-4370 vs Intel Core i7-2820QM

Core i3-4370 vs Core i7-2820QM benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2820QM beats the Core i3-4370 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4370 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-2820QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4370 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4370. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-4370 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2820QM. The Core i7-2820QM outputs less heat than Core i3-4370 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 i3-4370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.