Intel Core i7-11390H vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Core i7-11390H vs Core i3-1215U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11390H beats the Core i3-1215U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i3-1215U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11390H. Indeed, the Core i3-1215U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-11390H. But they both have the same number of threads. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Core i7-11390H thanks to a 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 i7-11390H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.