Intel Core i7 Q 740 vs Intel Core m3-7Y30

Compare Intel 4 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core m 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1112 points
1124 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1778 points
2254 points
26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

917 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
832 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

882 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
798 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.30 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
16.51 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.73 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed
1.61 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

920th of 1,089
917th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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7th Generation Core m

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

Core i7 Q 740 vs Core m3-7Y30 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core m3-7Y30 beats the Core i7 Q 740 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 740 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core m3-7Y30 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core m3-7Y30. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 Q 740 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core m3-7Y30. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core m3-7Y30. The Core i7 Q 740 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Q 740 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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