Intel Core i5-3340 vs Intel Core i7-950

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Price

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$ 278.02
$ 31.00
$ 247.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1896 points
1990 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3468 points
8% slightly better gaming score
3211 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1451 points
1624 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1393 points
1559 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.51 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
30.71 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1643 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1595 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

568 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
460 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1687 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1494 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

564 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
457 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
1% slightly higher clock speed
3.06 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
3.33 GHz
0.91% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
68% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory
24 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

759th of 1,120
740th of 1,120

Family

The product line

Core
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2009 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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