Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Core i3-4340

Core i7-920 vs Core i3-4340 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4340 is faster than the Core i7-920. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4340 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4340. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4340 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-920. The Core i3-4340 outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.