Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Core i7-2670QM

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 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
$ 29.05 slightly less expensive
$ 129.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points
55% significantly better overall score
947 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points
81% significantly better gaming score
1375 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points
45% significantly better multitasking score
811 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points
46% significantly better heavy workload score
772 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
26.96 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1461 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points
466 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points
1444 points
0.91% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points
466 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.79 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

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
45 W
188% 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

823rd of 1,102
981st of 1,102

Family

The product line

Core
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November
2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-920 vs Core i7-2670QM comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2670QM performs better than the Core i7-920. Despite this, the Core i7-920 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-920 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2670QM. Despite this, the Core i7-2670QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-2670QM 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.

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.

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