Intel Core i5-3470S 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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Intel Core i5-4460S

Price

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$ 621.00

$ 159.95

$ 461.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1864 points

1911 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3436 points

3523 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1423 points

1459 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1365 points

1403 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.42 points

33.53 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1747 points

2689 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

971 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1722 points

2749 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

598 points

1026 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

Identical

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 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

748th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3470S vs Core i5-4460S benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470S 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i5-3470S and Core i5-4460S have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-3470S 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.

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