Intel Core i7-3612QM vs Intel Pentium 6805

Core i7-3612QM vs Pentium 6805 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium 6805 beats the Core i7-3612QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3612QM in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3612QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium 6805 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium 6805. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3612QM has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium 6805. Also, the Core i7-3612QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Pentium 6805 outputs less heat than Core i7-3612QM thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-3612QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.