Intel Core i7-3517U vs Intel Pentium 4417U

Core i7-3517U vs Pentium 4417U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3517U beats the Pentium 4417U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 4417U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. The Pentium 4417U outputs less heat than Core i7-3517U thanks to a slightly 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 i7-3517U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.