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Is the Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Laptop
Socket: BGA1224
Clockspeed: 2.6 GHz
Turbo Speed: 3.6 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 8
Typical TDP: 45 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3720QM CPU @ 2.60GHz, Intel Core i7-3720QM CPU @ 2.60GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q2 2012
CPUmark/$Price: 55.81
Overall Rank:
2240th fastest in multithreading out of 5790 CPUs
2146th fastest in single threading out of 5790 CPUs
533rd fastest in out of 1610 Laptop CPUs
Last Price Change: $99.95 USD (2022-10-24)
| Integer Math | 19,895 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 10,142 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 25 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 12,026 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 1,645 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 92,653 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 438 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 3,720 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 1,838 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-12700H | 25,258 | |
| Apple M4 10 Core | 23,704 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 20,621 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 19,756 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 18,010 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 16,477 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,642 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,132 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,596 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,393 | |
| Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60GHz | 5,579 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60GHz | 55.81 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700H | 55.27 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 50.01 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 30.40 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 11.04 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M4 10 Core | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M4 10 Core | 4,516 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,886 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,676 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700H | 3,504 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,023 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 3,003 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 2,887 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,615 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,587 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,391 | |
| Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60GHz | 1,838 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL3279039 - Feb 11 2026 | 6048 | |
| BL3246610 - Jan 28 2026 | 6098 | |
| BL5112341 - Jan 27 2026 | 6122 | |
| BL5112278 - Jan 26 2026 | 5545 | |
| BL5112265 - Jan 26 2026 | 3195 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,775 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX | 9,408 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX | 8,990 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX | 8,984 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX | 7,912 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX | 7,884 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265H | 7,759 | |
| Intel Core Ultra X9 388H | 7,303 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX | 7,301 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900HX | 6,904 | |
| AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 392 | 6,807 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 390 | 6,756 | |
| Intel Core i7-3720QM @ 2.60GHz | 619 |
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