Intel Core i5-2450M vs Intel Core i7-4610M

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4610M

Price

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$ 74.02

$ 26.99 significantly less expensive

$ 101.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1014 points

1220 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1935 points

2493 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

766 points

895 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

735 points

858 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.58 points

29.10 points

342% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

905 points

1622 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

466 points

760 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

871 points

1907 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

1028 points

126% significantly 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

2.5 GHz

3 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3.7 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

5% slightly lower TDP

37 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

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

942nd of 1,089

895th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2014 February

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 i5-2450M vs Core i7-4610M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2450M beats the Core i7-4610M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4610M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4610M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2450M. Also, the Core i7-4610M has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-2450M CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4610M CPU because of its slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i5-2450M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.