Intel Core i5-2430M vs Intel Core i7-2760QM

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 62.02
$ 60.00 significantly less expensive
$ 122.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1116 points
2123 points
90% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2161 points
3444 points
59% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

838 points
1738 points
107% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

805 points
1671 points
107% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.39 points
33.27 points
91% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

955 points
1422 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points
479 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

875 points
1606 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points
528 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
Identical
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz
3.5 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
28% slightly lower TDP
45 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB
32 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

919th of 1,089
701st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November
2011 November

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

Core i5-2430M vs Core i7-2760QM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2760QM is faster than the Core i5-2430M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2430M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-2760QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-2430M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2430M. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-2430M and Core i7-2760QM are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-2760QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-2430M CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-2760QM CPU because of its slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i5-2430M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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