Intel Core i5-760 vs Intel Core i7-960

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Intel Core i7-960

Price

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$ 53.76

$ 96.24 significantly less expensive

$ 150.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1502 points

1995 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2755 points

3216 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1150 points

1629 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1104 points

1563 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.86 points

32.27 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1331 points

1700 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

503 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1259 points

1672 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

448 points

492 points

9% 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

3.2 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.33 GHz

3.46 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly 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

16 GiB

24 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

808th of 1,089

719th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 August

2009 November

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 i7-960 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-960 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 i7-960 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-760. Also, the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-760 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-960 CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-760 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.