Intel Core i3-8145U vs Intel Core i7-3540M

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-3540M

Price

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$ 1551.00

$ 108.02

$ 1442.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1258 points

1405 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2455 points

2845 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

936 points

1034 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

895 points

993 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.95 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

19.50 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1575 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

803 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

794 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

442 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3 GHz

42% much higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

880th of 1,089

837th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-8145U vs Core i7-3540M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3540M is faster than the Core i3-8145U. Despite this, the Core i3-8145U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3540M has a much higher clock speed than the Core i3-8145U. Despite this, the Core i3-8145U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-8145U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3540M 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 i3-8145U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.