Intel Core i3-3220 vs Intel Core i5-4310M

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4310M

Price

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$ 91.98

$ 88.04

$ 3.94 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1279 points

2% slightly better overall score

1246 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2425 points

2481 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

968 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

926 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

929 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

889 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.91 points

19.06 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1097 points

1697 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

526 points

859 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1092 points

1883 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

531 points

1000 points

88% 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

3.3 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

37 W

48% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

875th of 1,089

886th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-3220 vs Core i5-4310M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3220 beats the Core i5-4310M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4310M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4310M. The Core i5-4310M outputs less heat than Core i3-3220 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-3220 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.