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

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Price

The average price from our partner retailers

$ 94.04
$ 31.00
$ 63.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1600 points
17% slightly better overall score
1367 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2625 points
22% slightly better gaming score
2145 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1298 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
1130 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1242 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
1084 points

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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

814th of 1,127
874th of 1,127

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

Core i7-2630QM vs Core i7-950 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2630QM is faster than the Core i7-950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2630QM. Also, the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-2630QM 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.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-2630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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