Intel Core i7-2630QM vs Intel Core i7-950

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$ 94.04
$ 31.00
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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1600 points
1622 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2625 points
1% slightly better gaming score
2577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1298 points
1334 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1242 points
1280 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.19 points
30.71 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1290 points
1595 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

394 points
460 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1391 points
1494 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points
457 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3.06 GHz
53% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.9 GHz
3.33 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
188% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
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

813th of 1,124
807th of 1,124

Family

The product line

Core
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
2009 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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