Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Core i5-2300

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Intel Core i5-2300

Price

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$ 99.95

$ 35.00

$ 64.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points

1738 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points

3210 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points

1327 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points

1273 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

25.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1515 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points

516 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points

1499 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points

510 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.79 GHz

2.8 GHz

0.25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.93 GHz

3.1 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

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

769th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-920 vs Core i5-2300 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2300 performs better than the Core i7-920. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-920 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-920. Also, the Core i5-2300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-2300 outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a 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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.