Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Core i7-4770

Compare Intel 7th 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

$ 129.99
$ 76.51
$ 53.48 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1764 points
2793 points
58% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3405 points
4464 points
31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1328 points
2300 points
73% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1278 points
2209 points
72% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2347 points
2366 points
0.81% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.32 points
60.61 points
76% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2322 points
3652 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1183 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1143 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2485 points
3812 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1265 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1210 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

3.9 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W
64% significantly lower TDP
84 W

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

64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
1 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB
8 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

764th of 1,089
571st of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Core i3-7100 vs Core i7-4770 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4770 is faster than the Core i3-7100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4770 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7100 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-7100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4770. A Core i3-7100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4770 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-4770 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-7100. The Core i7-4770 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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