Intel Core i7-1265U vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Core i7-1265U vs Core i3-1215U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-1215U is faster than the Core i7-1265U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1265U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1265U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i3-1215U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1215U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-1265U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1215U. Also, the Core i7-1265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-1215U has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-1215U.

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 i7-1265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.