Intel Core i5-2320 vs Intel Core i5-3470S

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Intel Core i5-3470S

Price

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$ 141.67

$ 479.33 significantly less expensive

$ 621.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1844 points

1864 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3371 points

3436 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1414 points

1423 points

0.64% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1357 points

1365 points

0.59% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

28.42 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1527 points

1747 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

530 points

606 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1550 points

1722 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

598 points

11% slightly 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

3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

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

751st of 1,089

748th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 August

2012 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

Core i5-2320 vs Core i5-3470S comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3470S beats the Core i5-2320 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2320 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3470S. Despite this, the Core i5-3470S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3470S outputs less heat than Core i5-2320 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-2320 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.