Intel Core i5-760 vs Intel Core i7-870

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Intel Core i7-870

Price

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$ 53.76

$ 109.28 significantly less expensive

$ 163.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1502 points

1923 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2755 points

3090 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1150 points

1576 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1104 points

1513 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.86 points

37.74 points

72% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1331 points

1563 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

485 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1259 points

1550 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

448 points

475 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.80 GHz

2.93 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.33 GHz

3.6 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

Identical

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

808th of 1,089

732nd of 1,089

Family

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 August

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-760 vs Core i7-870 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-870 beats the Core i5-760 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-760 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-870 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-760. Also, the Core i7-870 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i5-760 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.