Intel Core i5-4288U vs Intel Core i7-3520M

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 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

1204 points

1256 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2413 points

2477 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

891 points

934 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

854 points

895 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.44 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

19.75 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1611 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1134 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

796 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

554 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1691 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1158 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

874 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

570 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

2.6 GHz

2.9 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3.6 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

25% slightly lower TDP

35 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

901st of 1,089

881st of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

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 i5-4288U vs Core i7-3520M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3520M is faster than the Core i5-4288U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4288U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3520M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4288U. Also, the Core i7-3520M has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-4288U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3520M CPU because of its slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i5-4288U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.