Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Core i7-3610QM

Core i3-7100 vs Core i7-3610QM comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3610QM beats the Core i3-7100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-7100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-3610QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-7100 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7100. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3610QM. The Core i7-3610QM outputs less heat than Core i3-7100 thanks to a slightly 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 i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.