Intel Core i5-3320M vs Intel Core i3-3220

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

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Intel Core i3-3220

Price

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$ 44.04

$ 47.94 significantly less expensive

$ 91.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1205 points

1279 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2406 points

2425 points

0.79% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

892 points

968 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

856 points

929 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.58 points

17.91 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1061 points

1097 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

513 points

526 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1046 points

1092 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points

531 points

3% slightly 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

2.60 GHz

3.3 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

57% significantly lower TDP

55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

900th of 1,089

875th of 1,089

Family

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3320M vs Core i3-3220 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3220 beats the Core i5-3320M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3320M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3320M. A Core i5-3320M CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-3220 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. Indeed, the Core i5-3320M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.