Intel Core i5-3470S vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1864 points

1% slightly better overall score

1840 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3436 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3383 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1423 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1405 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1365 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1349 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.42 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

22.79 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1722 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

598 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

410 points

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

3.7 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

748th of 1,089

752nd of 1,089

Family

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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 i5-3470S vs Phenom II X4 980 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3470S performs better than the Phenom II X4 980. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 980 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 980 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3470S.

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.