Intel Core i7-7700HQ vs Intel Core i3-3110M

Core i7-7700HQ vs Core i3-3110M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7700HQ is faster than the Core i3-3110M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3110M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-7700HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-3110M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-3110M. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3110M. The Core i3-3110M outputs less heat than Core i7-7700HQ thanks to a slightly 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 i7-7700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.