Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Core i5-4310M

Core i7-920 vs Core i5-4310M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-920 beats the Core i5-4310M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4310M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4310M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4310M. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4310M. Despite this, the Core i5-4310M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4310M 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.