Intel Core i5-3320M vs Intel Pentium 5405U

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1205 points
45% significantly better overall score
831 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2406 points
43% significantly better gaming score
1679 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

892 points
45% significantly better multitasking score
613 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

856 points
45% significantly better heavy workload score
589 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.58 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
15.88 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
15 W
133% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

900th of 1,089
995th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-3320M vs Pentium 5405U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3320M beats the Pentium 5405U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 5405U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Pentium 5405U outputs less heat than Core i5-3320M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-3320M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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