Intel Core i5-2400S vs Intel Core i7-2630QM

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Intel Core i7-2630QM

Price

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$ 70.00

$ 24.04 significantly less expensive

$ 94.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1557 points

1600 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2888 points

10% slightly better gaming score

2625 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1185 points

1298 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1138 points

1242 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

24.19 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1415 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1290 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

515 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

394 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1360 points

1391 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

504 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

444 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

2.5 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

2.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% 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

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

799th of 1,089

788th of 1,089

Family

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2400S vs Core i7-2630QM specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2400S is faster than the Core i7-2630QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2630QM in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-2630QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2400S has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2630QM. Also, the Core i5-2400S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-2630QM outputs less heat than Core i5-2400S 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 i5-2400S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.