Intel Core i3-8130U vs Intel Core i7-950

Core i3-8130U vs Core i7-950 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-950 beats the Core i3-8130U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-8130U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8130U. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-8130U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8130U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8130U. Despite this, the Core i3-8130U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-8130U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-950 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.