Intel Core i5-4440S vs Intel Core i7-930

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

$ 118.30
$ 188.99 significantly less expensive
$ 307.29

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1854 points
1941 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3417 points
8% slightly better gaming score
3145 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1417 points
1583 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1360 points
1519 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.57 points
33% slightly higher Blender score
28.18 points

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

2.8 GHz
Identical
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed
3.06 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
100% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory
24 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

750th of 1,089
729th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2010 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

No
No

Core i5-4440S vs Core i7-930 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-930 performs better than the Core i5-4440S. Despite this, the Core i5-4440S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-930 has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-4440S and Core i7-930 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-4440S has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-4440S CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-930 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-4440S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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