Intel Core i5-3570 vs Intel Core i7-2820QM

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Intel Core i7-2820QM

Price

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$ 190.22

$ 39.73 slightly less expensive

$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2165 points

2212 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3474 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1654 points

1842 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1587 points

1774 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.99 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

26.94 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1923 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1202 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

657 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

520 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1926 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1622 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

656 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

519 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

3.4 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

45 W

71% 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

690th of 1,089

680th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2011 February

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 i5-3570 vs Core i7-2820QM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2820QM is faster than the Core i5-3570. Despite this, the Core i5-3570 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-2820QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3570 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2820QM. Also, the Core i5-3570 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-2820QM outputs less heat than Core i5-3570 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i5-3570 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.