Intel Core i5-2400 vs Intel Core i5-3470S

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Intel Core i5-3470S

Price

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$ 60.50

$ 560.50 significantly less expensive

$ 621.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1911 points

2% slightly better overall score

1864 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3500 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3436 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1462 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1423 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1403 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1365 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.55 points

28.42 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1612 points

1747 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

550 points

606 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1606 points

1722 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

551 points

598 points

8% 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

3.1 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

5% 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

737th of 1,089

748th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

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 i5-2400 vs Core i5-3470S comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470S is faster than the Core i5-2400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2400 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2400 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 i5-2400 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 i5-2400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.