Intel Core i5-7400 vs Intel Core i5-3470S

Compare Intel 7th 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 i5-3470S

Price

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$ 59.00

$ 562.00 significantly less expensive

$ 621.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2237 points

20% slightly better overall score

1864 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4164 points

21% slightly better gaming score

3436 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1701 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

1423 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1632 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

1365 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.28 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

28.42 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3137 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1747 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

606 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3282 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1722 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1193 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

598 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

3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

675th of 1,089

748th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7400 vs Core i5-3470S benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7400 is faster than the Core i5-3470S. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3470S in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3470S. Despite this, the Core i5-3470S has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i5-7400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.