Intel Core i3-8130U vs Intel Core i7-2820QM

Core i3-8130U vs Core i7-2820QM comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2820QM beats the Core i3-8130U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-8130U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-2820QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-8130U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8130U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2820QM has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8130U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i3-8130U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-2820QM 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 i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.