Intel Core i7-4710HQ vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Core i7-4710HQ vs Core i3-1215U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-1215U performs better than the Core i7-4710HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4710HQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1215U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4710HQ has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4710HQ 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 i7-4710HQ 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 i7-4710HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.