Intel Core i5-3470 vs Intel Core i5-650

Core i5-3470 vs Core i5-650 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3470 beats the Core i5-650 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-650 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-3470 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-650 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i5-3470 and Core i5-650 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-3470 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-650 outputs less heat than Core i5-3470 thanks to a slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-3470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.