Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Core i7-4710MQ

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 174.85
$ 79.95
$ 94.90 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2575 points
4% slightly better overall score
2474 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4118 points
3% slightly better gaming score
3988 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2119 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
2030 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2036 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
1950 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.88 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
41.96 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2294 points
3159 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points
1003 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2315 points
3040 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

673 points
1015 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.40 GHz
35% slightly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
47 W
63% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

611th of 1,089
633rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-3770 vs Core i7-4710MQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3770 beats the Core i7-4710MQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4710MQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4710MQ. Also, the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4710MQ 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. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. 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.

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