Intel Core i5-3450 vs Intel Core i5-3470

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Intel Core i5-3470

Price

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$ 95.00

$ 122.39 significantly less expensive

$ 217.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1948 points

2020 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3568 points

3714 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1491 points

1543 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1432 points

1482 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.26 points

0.57% slightly higher Blender score

30.09 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points

1862 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

620 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1776 points

1843 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

622 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

Identical

77 W

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

727th of 1,089

712th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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 i5-3450 vs Core i5-3470 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470 is faster than the Core i5-3450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3450 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3470 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3450. Also, the Core i5-3470 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i5-3450 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.