Intel Core i5-3450 vs Intel Core i5-4460S

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 95.00
$ 64.95 significantly less expensive
$ 159.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1948 points
1% slightly better overall score
1911 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3568 points
1% slightly better gaming score
3523 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1491 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
1459 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1432 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
1403 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.26 points
33.53 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points
2689 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points
971 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1776 points
2749 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points
1026 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

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
2% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

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

2
Identical
2

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
736th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-3450 vs Core i5-4460S comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3450 is faster than the Core i5-4460S. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4460S in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4460S. Also, the Core i5-3450 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4460S 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.

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.

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