Intel Core i5-4460 vs Intel Core i7-950

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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Intel Core i7-950

Price

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$ 64.04

$ 31.00

$ 33.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2038 points

2% slightly better overall score

1990 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3756 points

16% slightly better gaming score

3211 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1556 points

1624 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1494 points

1559 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.05 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

30.71 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2935 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1595 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1032 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

460 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2954 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1494 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1068 points

133% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

457 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

3.20 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

3.06 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

54% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

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

709th of 1,089

721st of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2009 May

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 i5-4460 vs Core i7-950 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4460 beats the Core i7-950 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-950 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4460 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-950. Also, the Core i5-4460 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-4460 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-950 CPU because of its 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 i5-4460 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.