Intel Core i5-2400S vs Intel Core i7-950

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Price

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$ 70.00
$ 31.00
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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1557 points
1622 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2888 points
12% slightly better gaming score
2577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1185 points
1334 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1138 points
1280 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points
30.71 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1415 points
1595 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

515 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
460 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1360 points
1494 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

504 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
457 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.06 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
3.33 GHz
0.91% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
100% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
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

823rd of 1,124
807th of 1,124

Family

The product line

Core
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
2009 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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