Intel Core i3-7350K vs Intel Core i7-4712MQ

Core i3-7350K vs Core i7-4712MQ comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4712MQ is faster than the Core i3-7350K. Despite this, the Core i3-7350K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4712MQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7350K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7350K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7350K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4712MQ. The Core i7-4712MQ outputs less heat than Core i3-7350K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i3-7350K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4712MQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-7350K.

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 i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.