Intel Core i5-2320 vs Intel Core i7-930

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Intel Core i7-930

Price

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$ 141.67

$ 165.62 significantly less expensive

$ 307.29

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1844 points

1941 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3371 points

7% slightly better gaming score

3145 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1414 points

1583 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1357 points

1519 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

28.18 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1527 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1490 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

530 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

432 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1550 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1449 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

26% 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

3 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

7% 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

751st of 1,089

729th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 August

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 i5-2320 vs Core i7-930 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-930 performs better than the Core i5-2320. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2320 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-930. Also, the Core i5-2320 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-2320 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.

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