Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Core i7-7700K vs Core i3-1215U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-1215U is faster than the Core i7-7700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-1215U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-7700K that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1215U. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Core i7-7700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-1215U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700K. The Core i3-1215U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.