Intel Core i7-3820QM vs Intel Core i7-870

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Intel Core i7-870

Price

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$ 499.00

$ 163.04

$ 335.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1913 points

1923 points

0.52% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3059 points

3090 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1573 points

1576 points

0.19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1510 points

1513 points

0.20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.56 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

37.74 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2717 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1563 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

717 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

485 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2007 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1550 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

602 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

475 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

2.7 GHz

2.93 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

733rd of 1,089

732nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-3820QM vs Core i7-870 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3820QM performs better than the Core i7-870. Despite this, the Core i7-870 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 i7-870 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3820QM. Despite this, the Core i7-3820QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3820QM CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-870 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 i7-3820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.