Intel Core i3-7130U vs Intel Core i7-960

Core i3-7130U vs Core i7-960 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-960 beats the Core i3-7130U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7130U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-960 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7130U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7130U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7130U. A Core i3-7130U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-960 CPU because of its significantly 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 i3-7130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.