Intel Core i5-3470S vs Intel Core i7-4702MQ

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4702MQ

Price

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$ 621.00

$ 289.95

$ 331.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1864 points

2075 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3436 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3306 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1423 points

1711 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1365 points

1645 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.42 points

44.49 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1747 points

2821 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

919 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1722 points

2949 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

598 points

956 points

59% significantly 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

2.9 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

2.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

37 W

75% significantly lower TDP

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

707th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2013 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 i7-4702MQ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3470S beats the Core i7-4702MQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4702MQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-4702MQ has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3470S has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4702MQ. Also, the Core i5-3470S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4702MQ outputs less heat than Core i5-3470S thanks to a 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 i5-3470S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.