Intel Core i7-3537U vs Intel Pentium 4417U

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 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

844 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1588 points

1660 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

626 points

630 points

0.64% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

600 points

604 points

0.67% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.36 points

17.80 points

71% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

17 W

15 W

13% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

996th of 1,089

993rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

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 Pentium 4417U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3537U is faster than the Pentium 4417U. Despite this, the Pentium 4417U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Pentium 4417U 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.

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