Intel Core i5-3330 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

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

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Intel Core i7-4900MQ

Price

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$ 199.00

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$ 200.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1786 points

2307 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3295 points

3862 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1364 points

1859 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1310 points

1784 points

36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.32 points

54.97 points

126% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1533 points

2842 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

933 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1647 points

3402 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

1123 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

7% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

3.8 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

47 W

63% 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

659th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3330 vs Core i7-4900MQ comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3330 performs better than the Core i7-4900MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4900MQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-4900MQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3330 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4900MQ 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.

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. For instance, the Core i5-3330 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.