Intel Core i5-3317U vs Intel Core m3-7Y30

Core i5-3317U vs Core m3-7Y30 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core m3-7Y30 is faster than the Core i5-3317U. Despite this, the Core i5-3317U 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3317U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core m3-7Y30. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core m3-7Y30 outputs less heat than Core i5-3317U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-3317U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.