Intel Core i7-3630QM vs Intel Core i7 Q 740

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1913 points
72% significantly better overall score
1112 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2976 points
67% significantly better gaming score
1778 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1587 points
73% significantly better multitasking score
917 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1523 points
72% significantly better heavy workload score
882 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.41 points
79% significantly higher Blender score
20.30 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed
1.73 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

734th of 1,089
920th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-3630QM vs Core i7 Q 740 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3630QM beats the Core i7 Q 740 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 740 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3630QM has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 Q 740.

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 i7-3630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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