Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel N95

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
1557 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2145 points
2948 points
37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1130 points
1179 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1084 points
1131 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.71 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
28.97 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.06 GHz
79% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

874th of 1,127
825th of 1,127

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-950 vs N95 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the N95 beats the Core i7-950 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 N95.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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