Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2702 points
3216 points
19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4366 points
0.44% slightly better gaming score
4347 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2208 points
2881 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2118 points
2795 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.21 points
84.65 points
79% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
133% significantly higher clock speed
1.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.4 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
28 W
175% 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
64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

588th of 1,089
509th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-3770K vs Core i3-1220P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3770K is faster than the Core i3-1220P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1220P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-3770K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P.

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.

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