Intel Core i5-2300 vs Intel Core i7-930

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Intel Core i7-930

Price

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$ 35.00

$ 272.29 significantly less expensive

$ 307.29

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1738 points

1941 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3210 points

2% slightly better gaming score

3145 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1327 points

1583 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

1519 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.92 points

28.18 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1515 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1490 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

516 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

432 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1499 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1449 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

510 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

425 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

Identical

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

3.06 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

24 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

769th of 1,089

729th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2300 vs Core i7-930 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-930 performs better than the Core i5-2300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2300 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-930 has more threads. According to our data, the Core i5-2300 and Core i7-930 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-2300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-2300 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-930 CPU because of its slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-2300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.