Intel Core i5-8350U vs Intel Core i7-950

Compare Intel 8th 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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$ 989.00

$ 31.00

$ 958.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1929 points

1990 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3244 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3211 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1554 points

1624 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1487 points

1559 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.73 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

30.71 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

1.7 GHz

3.06 GHz

79% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

766% 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

732nd of 1,091

723rd of 1,091

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2009 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8350U vs Core i7-950 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-950 is faster than the Core i5-8350U. Despite this, the Core i5-8350U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-950 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8350U. Despite this, the Core i5-8350U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8350U 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.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-8350U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.