Intel Core i3-3227U 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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$ 1186.00

$ 197.00 slightly less expensive

$ 1383.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

741 points

767 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1471 points

4% slightly better gaming score

1414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

550 points

585 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

527 points

562 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.38 points

11.60 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

778 points

1097 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

335 points

534 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

643 points

1177 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

301 points

577 points

91% 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

1.9 GHz

Identical

1.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

17 W

15 W

13% slightly 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

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,020th 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

2013 February

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-3227U vs Core i3-4030U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4030U beats the Core i3-3227U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-3227U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i3-3227U and Core i3-4030U have the same clock speed. The Core i3-4030U outputs less heat than Core i3-3227U thanks to a slightly 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 i3-3227U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.