Intel Core i7-8700T vs Intel Core i7-3770K

Core i7-8700T vs Core i7-3770K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8700T is faster than the Core i7-3770K. Despite this, the Core i7-3770K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-3770K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700T. Despite this, the Core i7-8700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700T CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3770K CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-8700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.