Intel Core i3-4030U vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1383.00
$ 48.21
$ 1334.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

767 points
784 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1414 points
1436 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

585 points
602 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

562 points
580 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.60 points
55% significantly higher Blender score
7.45 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1097 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1016 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

534 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
318 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1177 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
825 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

577 points
97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
292 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz
2.33 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
533% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,012th of 1,089
1,009th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i3-4030U vs Core 2 Quad Q8200 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4030U. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4030U. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-4030U. A Core i3-4030U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q8200 CPU because of its 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 i3-4030U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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