Intel Core i7-2760QM vs Intel Core i7-960

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Intel Core i7-960

Price

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$ 122.02

$ 27.98 slightly less expensive

$ 150.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2123 points

6% slightly better overall score

1995 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3444 points

7% slightly better gaming score

3216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1738 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1629 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1671 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1563 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

33.27 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

32.27 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1422 points

1700 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

479 points

503 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1606 points

1672 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

528 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

492 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

2.4 GHz

3.2 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

3.46 GHz

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

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

701st of 1,089

719th of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

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 i7-2760QM vs Core i7-960 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2760QM is faster than the Core i7-960. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-960 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2760QM. Despite this, the Core i7-2760QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-2760QM CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-960 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 i7-2760QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.