Intel Core i5-3570 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 190.22
$ 9.78 slightly less expensive
$ 200.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2165 points
2307 points
6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points
3% slightly better gaming score
3862 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1654 points
1859 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1587 points
1784 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.99 points
54.97 points
71% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1923 points
2842 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

657 points
933 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1926 points
3402 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

656 points
1123 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
Identical
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
47 W
63% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
659th 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
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-3570 vs Core i7-4900MQ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3570 beats the Core i7-4900MQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4900MQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-4900MQ has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3570 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4900MQ. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-4900MQ 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.

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 i5-3570 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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