Intel Core i5-4310M vs Intel Core i7-3630QM

Core i5-4310M vs Core i7-3630QM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3630QM beats the Core i5-4310M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4310M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-3630QM has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4310M. Indeed, the Core i7-3630QM has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4310M. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4310M. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4310M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3630QM. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Core i5-4310M CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3630QM CPU because of its 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 i5-4310M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.