Intel Core i7-4720HQ vs Intel Core i3-1115G4

Core i7-4720HQ vs Core i3-1115G4 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4720HQ performs better than the Core i3-1115G4. Despite this, the Core i3-1115G4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4720HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-1115G4 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1115G4. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-1115G4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4720HQ. Also, the Core i3-1115G4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1115G4 outputs less heat than Core i7-4720HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-1115G4 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4720HQ. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-4720HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.