Intel Core i5-3340 vs Intel Core i7-3820QM

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Intel Core i7-3820QM

Price

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$ 278.02

$ 220.98 significantly less expensive

$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1890 points

1913 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3455 points

12% slightly better gaming score

3059 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1447 points

1573 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1389 points

1510 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.51 points

41.56 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1643 points

2717 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

568 points

717 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1687 points

2007 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

564 points

602 points

6% slightly 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

3.1 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3.7 GHz

12% 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

741st of 1,089

733rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3340 vs Core i7-3820QM comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3340 beats the Core i7-3820QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3820QM in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-3820QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3340 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3820QM. Despite this, the Core i7-3820QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3820QM outputs less heat than Core i5-3340 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-3340 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.