Intel Core i5-3330 vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4930MX

Price

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$ 199.00

$ 100.01 significantly less expensive

$ 299.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1786 points

2463 points

37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3295 points

4049 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1364 points

2003 points

46% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1310 points

1926 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.32 points

50.02 points

105% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1533 points

3101 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

873 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1647 points

3648 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

1251 points

124% 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

3.20 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

3.9 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

57 W

35% slightly 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

636th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Core X-series

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 i7-4930MX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4930MX performs better than the Core i5-3330. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3330 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4930MX has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4930MX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3330. Also, the Core i7-4930MX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4930MX outputs less heat than Core i5-3330 thanks to a 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. For instance, the Core i5-3330 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.