Intel Core i7-3615QM Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-03

The Intel Core i7-3615QM has 4 cores with 8 threads and is based on the 3. gen of the Intel Core i7 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1224 socket and was released in Q2/2012. The Intel Core i7-3615QM scores 715 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 2,798 points.

CPU lineage
The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i7-3615QM. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i7-3615QM.
Name:	Intel Core i7-3615QM
Family:	Intel Core i7
CPU group:	Intel Core i 3000M
Architecture:	Ivy Bridge H
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	3
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-3615QM has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-3615QM is 2.30 GHz (3.30 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	4 / 8
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	4x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	2.30 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.30 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores):	--

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-3615QM has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i7-3615QM uses the Intel HD Graphics 4000, which has 128 texture shaders and 16 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel HD Graphics 4000
GPU frequency:	0.65 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.20 GHz
Compute units:	16
Shader:	128
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	7
Direct X:	11.0
Technology:	22 nm
Release date:	Q1/2011

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	No
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 32 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 25.6 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR3L-1333 DDR3L-1600 DDR3-1333 DDR3-1600	21.3 GB/s 25.6 GB/s 21.3 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory:	32 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth:	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 45 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	45 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	105 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-3615QM is made in 22 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 6.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	22 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	BGA 1224
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	6.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date:	Q2/2012
Release price:	363 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i7-3615QM
4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz (3.30 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-3615QM have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Celeron N4505 2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz	619
	Intel Celeron N5105 4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	619
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	615
	Intel Core i7-3615QM 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	612
	Intel Pentium G2030 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	608
	Intel Core i5-8265U 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	606
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	605

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 5 3450U 4C 8T @ 3.10 GHz	3197
	Intel Core i3-8100T 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	3171
	Intel Core i5-4590 4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	3167
	Intel Core i7-3615QM 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	3163
	Intel Core i7-4800MQ 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	3163
	Intel Core i3-7350K 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	3136
	Intel Core i5-1130G7 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	3129

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i7-3610QE 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	717
	Intel Core i5-3340M 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	716
	Intel Core i7-2860QM 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	716
	Intel Core i7-3615QM 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	715
	Intel Core i7-3610QM 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	715
	Intel Xeon D-1527 4C 8T @ 2.70 GHz	714
	Intel Xeon D-1567 12C 24T @ 2.70 GHz	714

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-8265U 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	2806
	Intel Core i7-4770TE 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	2804
	Intel Core i5-7400 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	2803
	Intel Core i7-3615QM 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	2798
	Intel Core i7-6822EQ 4C 8T @ 2.00 GHz	2796
	Intel Core i3-9100TE 4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	2793
	Intel Core i7-4710MQ 4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz	2790

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Core i5-3330S 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	642
	Intel Core i5-3470T 2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	640
	Intel Core i7-2960XM 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	640
	Intel Core i7-3615QM 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	637
	Intel Core i7-975 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	635
	Intel Core i7-3687U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	635
	MediaTek Helio G90T 8C 8T @ 2.05 GHz	633

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Core i5-3570 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	2246
	Intel Core i3-1000G4 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	2241
	Intel Core i3-1000NG4 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	2241
	Intel Core i7-3615QM 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	2239
	Intel Core i5-3550 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	2237
	Intel Core i5-4340M 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	2227
	Intel Core i7-975 4C 8T @ 3.33 GHz	2225

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Core i7-3687U Intel HD Graphics 4000 @ 1.20 GHz	307
	Intel Core M-5Y10a Intel HD Graphics 5300 @ 0.80 GHz	307
	Intel Core M-5Y10c Intel HD Graphics 5300 @ 0.80 GHz	307
	Intel Core i7-3615QM Intel HD Graphics 4000 @ 1.20 GHz	307
	AMD A9-9410 AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) @ 0.80 GHz	307
	AMD A6-6420K AMD Radeon HD 8470D @ 0.80 GHz	307
	AMD A6-6400K AMD Radeon HD 8470D @ 0.80 GHz	307

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Core i7-4702HQ 4C 8T @ 2.90 GHz	5211
	Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	5199
	Intel Core i5-6400 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	5177
	Intel Core i7-3615QM 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	5170
	MediaTek Dimensity 1200 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	5143
	Intel Xeon W-2102 4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	5134
	Intel Core i7-4702MQ 4C 8T @ 2.90 GHz	5131

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
566 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
542 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,439 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,412 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,700 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,649 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,954 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,340 entries

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