Intel Core i7-3537U vs Intel Core i7 Q 740

Core i7-3537U vs Core i7 Q 740 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 Q 740 is faster than the Core i7-3537U. Despite this, the Core i7-3537U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3537U. Indeed, the Core i7 Q 740 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-3537U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3537U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3537U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 Q 740. In terms of cache, the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-3537U. The Core i7 Q 740 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-3537U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.