Intel Core i3-2350M vs Intel Core i3-3227U

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

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Price

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$ 36.03
$ 1149.97 significantly less expensive
$ 1186.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

788 points
6% slightly better overall score
741 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1594 points
8% slightly better gaming score
1471 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

577 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
550 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

555 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
527 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.48 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
9.38 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

724 points
778 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

352 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
335 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

662 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
643 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

331 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
301 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
1.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
17 W
105% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB
32 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,007th of 1,089
1,020th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November
2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i3-2350M vs Core i3-3227U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-2350M beats the Core i3-3227U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3227U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2350M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3227U. The Core i3-3227U outputs less heat than Core i3-2350M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i3-2350M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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