Intel Core i5-3340M vs Intel Core i7-950

Core i5-3340M vs Core i7-950 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-950 beats the Core i5-3340M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3340M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-3340M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3340M. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3340M. Despite this, the Core i5-3340M has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3340M CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-950 CPU because of its 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. Indeed, the Core i5-3340M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.