Intel Core i3-7130U vs Intel Core i5-3330

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 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

976 points
1786 points
82% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1947 points
3295 points
69% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

724 points
1364 points
88% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

695 points
1310 points
88% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.54 points
24.32 points
24% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1667 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1533 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

827 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
538 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1774 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1647 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
558 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz
3 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
413% significantly lower TDP
77 W

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

957th of 1,089
759th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May
2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i3-7130U vs Core i5-3330 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3330 is faster than the Core i3-7130U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7130U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-3330 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7130U. Indeed, the Core i5-3330 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7130U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3330 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7130U. A Core i3-7130U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3330 CPU because of its 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 i3-7130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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