Intel Core i7-1185G7 vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3014 points

3288 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5168 points

5718 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2395 points

2595 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2286 points

2480 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.09 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

57.10 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

6383 points

10% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

5802 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5178 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4916 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1697 points

1875 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5187 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4826 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1724 points

1815 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

20% slightly more L3 cache

10 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

538th of 1,089

501st of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7

12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-1185G7 vs Core i3-1215U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-1215U is faster than the Core i7-1185G7. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1185G7 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-1215U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-1185G7 that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-1185G7 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.