Intel Core i7-870 vs Intel Core i7-950

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Intel Core i7-950

Price

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$ 163.04

$ 31.00

$ 132.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1923 points

1990 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3090 points

3211 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1576 points

1624 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1513 points

1559 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.74 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

30.71 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1563 points

1595 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

460 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1550 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1494 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

475 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

457 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

2.93 GHz

3.06 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly 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

16 GiB

24 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

732nd of 1,089

721st of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

2009 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-870 vs Core i7-950 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-870 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-870. Despite this, the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-870 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-950 CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.