Intel Core i5-3470 vs Intel Core i7-2600

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Intel Core i7-2600

Price

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$ 217.39

$ 8.98 slightly less expensive

$ 226.37

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2020 points

2539 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3714 points

3984 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1543 points

2108 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1482 points

2031 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2692 points

3013 points

11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.09 points

38.63 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1862 points

2047 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

620 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

608 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1843 points

2040 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

622 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

610 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.4 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

23% slightly lower TDP

95 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

712th of 1,089

619th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3470 vs Core i7-2600 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2600 performs better than the Core i5-3470. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3470 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-2600 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3470. Also, the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3470 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-2600 CPU because of its 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 i5-3470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.