Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel N100

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1367 points

6% slightly better overall score

1280 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2145 points

2623 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1130 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

924 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1084 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

882 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.71 points

33.61 points

9% slightly higher Blender 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

3.06 GHz

282% significantly higher clock speed

0.8 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

874th of 1,127

903rd of 1,127

Family

The product line

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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 i7-950 vs N100 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-950 is faster than the N100. Despite this, the N100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-950 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-950 has a significantly higher clock speed than the N100.

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 i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.