Intel Core i7-3540M vs Intel Core i7-950

Core i7-3540M vs Core i7-950 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3540M 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-3540M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3540M. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3540M. Despite this, the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3540M 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-3540M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.