Intel Core i3-7100U vs Intel Core i7 Q 720

Core i3-7100U vs Core i7 Q 720 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-7100U beats the Core i7 Q 720 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 720 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 Q 720 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-7100U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7100U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7100U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7 Q 720.

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 i3-7100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.