Intel Core i5-2320 vs Intel Core i7-3820QM

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Intel Core i7-3820QM

Price

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$ 141.67

$ 357.33 significantly less expensive

$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1844 points

1913 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3371 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3059 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1414 points

1573 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1357 points

1510 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

41.56 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1527 points

2717 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

530 points

717 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1550 points

2007 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

602 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

45 W

111% 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

751st of 1,089

733rd 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 i7-3820QM benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3820QM performs better than the Core i5-2320. Despite this, the Core i5-2320 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-3820QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2320 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3820QM. Despite this, the Core i7-3820QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3820QM 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.

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 i5-2320 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.