Intel Core i5-3470 vs Intel Core i7-3770K

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Intel Core i7-3770K

Price

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$ 217.39

$ 127.50 significantly less expensive

$ 344.89

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2020 points

2702 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3714 points

4366 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1543 points

2208 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1482 points

2118 points

42% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2692 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

2148 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.09 points

47.21 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1862 points

2474 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

620 points

708 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1843 points

2489 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

622 points

709 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.5 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.9 GHz

8% 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

712th of 1,089

588th 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 i5-3470 vs Core i7-3770K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3770K beats the Core i5-3470 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3470 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-3770K has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3470. Also, the Core i7-3770K 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.

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 i5-3470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.