Intel Core i5-2300 vs Intel Core i7-4710MQ

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Price

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$ 35.00
$ 44.95 significantly less expensive
$ 79.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1738 points
2474 points
42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3210 points
3988 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1327 points
2030 points
52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points
1950 points
53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.92 points
41.96 points
61% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1515 points
3159 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

516 points
1003 points
94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1499 points
3040 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

510 points
1015 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz
3.5 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
47 W
102% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

787th of 1,115
650th of 1,115

Family

The product line

Core
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
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

No
No

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