Intel Core i5-2400S vs Intel Core i7-860

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Intel Core i7-860

Price

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$ 70.00

$ 54.25

$ 15.75 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1557 points

1632 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2888 points

10% slightly better gaming score

2607 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1185 points

1342 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1138 points

1289 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

30.74 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1415 points

1475 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

515 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

441 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1360 points

1475 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

504 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

451 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

2.8 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3.46 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

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

783rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2009 August

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 i7-860 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2400S performs better than the Core i7-860. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-860 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-860 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2400S. Also, the Core i7-860 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-2400S CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-860 CPU because of its significantly 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 i5-2400S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.