Intel Core i3-7350K vs Intel Core i7-6920HQ

Core i3-7350K vs Core i7-6920HQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-7350K beats the Core i7-6920HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6920HQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-6920HQ 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-7350K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6920HQ. The Core i7-6920HQ outputs less heat than Core i3-7350K thanks to a slightly 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 i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.