Intel Core i7-3540M vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Core i7-3540M vs Core i7-6498DU comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3540M beats the Core i7-6498DU in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6498DU 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6498DU.

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 i7-3540M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.