Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Core i7-3770K

Core i7-7700K vs Core i7-3770K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7700K performs better than the Core i7-3770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3770K. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3770K outputs less heat than Core i7-7700K thanks to a slightly 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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.