Intel Core i7-3537U vs Intel Core i3-4030U

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 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

830 points

8% slightly better overall score

767 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1588 points

12% slightly better gaming score

1414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

626 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

585 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

600 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

562 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.36 points

11.60 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

874 points

1097 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

436 points

534 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

968 points

1177 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

484 points

577 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.00 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

1.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

17 W

15 W

13% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

996th of 1,089

1,012th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-3537U vs Core i3-4030U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3537U is faster than the Core i3-4030U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4030U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3537U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4030U. The Core i3-4030U outputs less heat than Core i7-3537U thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3537U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.