Intel Core i5-3330 vs Intel Core i7-2820QM

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Intel Core i7-2820QM

Price

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$ 199.00

$ 30.95 slightly less expensive

$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1786 points

2212 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3295 points

3474 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1364 points

1842 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1310 points

1774 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.32 points

26.94 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1533 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1202 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

520 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1647 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1622 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

519 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

3.4 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

45 W

71% significantly lower TDP

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

759th of 1,089

680th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3330 vs Core i7-2820QM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2820QM is faster than the Core i5-3330. Despite this, the Core i5-3330 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-2820QM has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3330 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2820QM. Despite this, the Core i7-2820QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-2820QM outputs less heat than Core i5-3330 thanks to a 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. For instance, the Core i5-3330 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.