Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Core i3-4330

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 99.95
$ 92.61
$ 7.34 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points
5% slightly better overall score
1401 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points
2783 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
1040 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score
998 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points
35.61 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points
1785 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points
818 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points
2089 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points
1060 points
155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.79 GHz
3.5 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
54 W
140% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB
32 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

814th of 1,089
838th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-920 vs Core i3-4330 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-920 beats the Core i3-4330 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4330 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4330. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4330. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4330. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4330 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-920. The Core i3-4330 outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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