Intel Core i3-4370 vs Intel Core i7-3612QM

Core i3-4370 vs Core i7-3612QM benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4370 is faster than the Core i7-3612QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3612QM in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3612QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4370 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4370. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4370 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3612QM. The Core i7-3612QM outputs less heat than Core i3-4370 thanks to a significantly 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 i3-4370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.