Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Core i7-3770K vs Core i3-1215U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-1215U is faster than the Core i7-3770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i3-1215U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3770K. Indeed, the Core i3-1215U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3770K. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1215U. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Core i7-3770K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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