Intel Core i3-4170 vs Intel Core i5-4310M

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 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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$ 41.60

$ 46.44 significantly less expensive

$ 88.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1489 points

19% slightly better overall score

1246 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2858 points

15% slightly better gaming score

2481 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1121 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

926 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1076 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

889 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.13 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

19.06 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2036 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1697 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1049 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

859 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2163 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1883 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1119 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1000 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W

37 W

45% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

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

811th of 1,089

886th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-4170 vs Core i5-4310M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4170 is faster than the Core i5-4310M. 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4310M. The Core i5-4310M outputs less heat than Core i3-4170 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 i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.