Intel Core i7-4770 vs Intel Core i3-4330

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 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

$ 76.51
$ 16.10 slightly less expensive
$ 92.61

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2793 points
99% significantly better overall score
1401 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4464 points
60% significantly better gaming score
2783 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2300 points
121% significantly better multitasking score
1040 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2209 points
121% significantly better heavy workload score
998 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.61 points
70% significantly higher Blender score
35.61 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3652 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1785 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1143 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
818 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3812 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2089 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1210 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1060 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz
3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
54 W
55% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

571st of 1,089
838th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2013 August

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
Yes

Core i7-4770 vs Core i3-4330 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4770 beats the Core i3-4330 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4330 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-4770 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4330. Indeed, the Core i7-4770 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4330. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4330. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4330 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4770. The Core i3-4330 outputs less heat than Core i7-4770 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-4770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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