Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Core i3-2100

Core i7-3770 vs Core i3-2100 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3770 is faster than the Core i3-2100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-3770 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-2100 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-2100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-2100. The Core i3-2100 outputs less heat than Core i7-3770 thanks to a slightly 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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.