Intel Core i3-4370 vs Intel Core i7-4702MQ

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1591 points
2075 points
30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3153 points
3306 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1182 points
1711 points
44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1135 points
1645 points
44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.44 points
44.49 points
107% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1825 points
2821 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

832 points
919 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2388 points
2949 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1205 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
956 points

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

3.8 GHz
72% significantly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
37 W
45% significantly 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

789th of 1,089
707th 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

2014 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 i3-4370 vs Core i7-4702MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4702MQ is faster than the Core i3-4370. Despite this, the Core i3-4370 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-4702MQ has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4370. Indeed, the Core i7-4702MQ has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4370. 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 i7-4702MQ. The Core i7-4702MQ 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.

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.

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