Intel Core i3-2350M vs Intel Core i3-4030U

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-4030U

Price

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$ 36.03

$ 1346.97 significantly less expensive

$ 1383.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

788 points

2% slightly better overall score

767 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1594 points

12% slightly better gaming score

1414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

577 points

585 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

555 points

562 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.48 points

11.60 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

724 points

1097 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

352 points

534 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

662 points

1177 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

331 points

577 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

Identical

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,007th of 1,089

1,012th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-2350M vs Core i3-4030U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-2350M beats the Core i3-4030U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4030U 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 i3-4030U. The Core i3-4030U 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.