Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Core i5-4590T

Core i7-3770 vs Core i5-4590T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3770 performs better than the Core i5-4590T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4590T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-3770 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3770 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4590T. Also, the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4590T outputs less heat than Core i7-3770 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-3770 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.