Intel Core i5-3470 vs Intel Core i7-960

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Intel Core i7-960

Price

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$ 217.39

$ 150.00

$ 67.39 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2020 points

1% slightly better overall score

1995 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3714 points

15% slightly better gaming score

3216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1543 points

1629 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1482 points

1563 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.09 points

32.27 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1862 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1700 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

620 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

503 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1843 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1672 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

622 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

492 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

Identical

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

3.46 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

68% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

24 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

712th of 1,089

719th of 1,089

Family

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2009 November

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 i7-960 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470 is faster than the Core i7-960. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-960 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-960 has more threads. According to our data, the Core i5-3470 and Core i7-960 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-3470 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3470 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-960 CPU because of its significantly 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.