Intel Core i5-3450 vs Intel Core i5-3470S

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Intel Core i5-3470S

Price

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$ 95.00

$ 526.00 significantly less expensive

$ 621.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1948 points

4% slightly better overall score

1864 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3568 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3436 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1491 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1423 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1432 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1365 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.26 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

28.42 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1747 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

0.83% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

606 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1776 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1722 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

598 points

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

6% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

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

65 W

18% 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

727th of 1,089

748th of 1,089

Family

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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 i5-3470S comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3450 beats the Core i5-3470S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3470S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3470S. Despite this, the Core i5-3470S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3470S outputs less heat than Core i5-3450 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i5-3450 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.