Intel Core i7-3540M vs Intel Core i7-4600M

Core i7-3540M vs Core i7-4600M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4600M beats the Core i7-3540M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3540M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4600M. Also, the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3540M CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4600M CPU because of its 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 i7-3540M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.