Intel Core i7-4600U Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Intel Core i7-4600U has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 4. gen of the Intel Core i7 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1168 socket and was released in Q3/2013.
CPU lineageThe segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i7-4600U. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i7-4600U. |
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| Name: | Intel Core i7-4600U |
| Family: | Intel Core i7 |
| CPU group: | Intel Core i 4000U |
| Segment: | Mobile |
| Generation: | 4 |
| Predecessor: | -- |
| Successor: | -- |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
In addition to the number of CPU cores and threads, you can see here whether the Intel Core i7-4600U can be overclocked. You will also find the clock frequencies of the processor (single-core and multi-core) here. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 2 / 4 |
| Core architecture: | normal |
| Cores: | 2x |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | Yes |
| Overclocking: | No |
| Frequency: | 2.10 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (1 Core): | 3.30 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): | 3.30 GHz |
Internal Graphics
The Intel Core i7-4600U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die. A processor with integrated graphics is also called APU (Accelerated Processing Unit).
| GPU name: | Intel HD Graphics 4400 |
| GPU frequency: | 0.20 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | 1.10 GHz |
| Execution units: | 20 |
| Shader: | 160 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 2 GB |
| Max. displays: | 3 |
| Generation: | 7.5 |
| Direct X: | 11.1 |
| Technology: | 22 nm |
| Release date: | Q2/2013 |
Hardware codec support
A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit): | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit): | No |
| h264: | Decode / Encode |
| VP8: | No |
| VP9: | No |
| AV1: | No |
| AVC: | Decode / Encode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode |
Memory & PCIeThe memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the processor. The memory bandwidth depends on several factors and is given in gigabytes per second. |
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| Memory type: | DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM |
| Max. Memory: | |
| Memory channels: | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| Bandwidth: | -- |
| ECC: | No |
| PCIe: | 2.0 x 12 |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
Thermal ManagementThe Thermal Design Power (TDP for short) specifies the necessary cooling solution to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually only gives a rough idea of the real consumption of a CPU. |
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| TDP (PL1): | 15 W |
| TDP (PL2): | -- |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | -- |
Technical details
Here you will find information on the size of the level 2 and level 3 cache of the Intel Core i7-4600U as well as a list of the processors ISA extensions. We have documented the architecture and the manufacturing technology for you as well as the release date.
| Technology: | 22 nm |
| Chip design: | Monolithic |
| Socket: | BGA 1168 |
| L2-Cache: | -- |
| L3-Cache: | 4.00 MB |
| Architecture: | Haswell U |
| Operating systems: | Windows 10, Linux |
| Virtualization: | VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d |
| Instruction set (ISA): | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 |
| Release date: | Q3/2013 |
| Release price: | -- |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | -- |
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-4600U have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-6500U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-5300U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4430
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Silver N6000
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.|
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Intel Core i5-3210M
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4500U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4200U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz |
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Intel Core m5-6Y54
2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-10100Y
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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Intel Atom x6413E
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Atom x6425E
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Celeron N6211
2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-3250
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.|
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Intel Core i7-7600U
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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AMD Athlon II X4 645
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-5500U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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MediaTek Helio P70
8C 8T @ 1.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-670
2C 4T @ 3.46 GHz |
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Intel Celeron J4105
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)
The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.|
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Intel Celeron J4125
4C 4T @ 2.00 GHz |
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AMD Phenom II X6 1065T
6C 6T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Celeron G5905
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-5300U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz |
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200
4C 4T @ 2.33 GHz |
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
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AMD A8-3500M
AMD Radeon HD 6620G @ 0.44 GHz |
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AMD A8-3510MX
AMD Radeon HD 6620G @ 0.44 GHz |
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AMD A8-3520M
AMD Radeon HD 6620G @ 0.44 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
Intel HD Graphics 4400 @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4440S
Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4430S
Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4510U
Intel HD Graphics 4400 @ 1.10 GHz |
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Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.|
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Intel Core i3-3240
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-3245
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6360U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G4600T
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 3 2200U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.|
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AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz |
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AMD FX-6300
6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-7020U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-5300U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz |
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AMD FX-4100
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.|
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Intel Core m3-7Y32
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2630L v4
10C 20T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4
12C 24T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-3630QM
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-7167U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4500U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.|
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Intel Core i5-4200M
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-6100H
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz |
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AMD A8-6500
4C 4T @ 4.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-8200Y
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4650U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 3 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.|
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Intel Xeon E5-2630L v3
8C 16T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4702HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4702MQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3
10C 20T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4650U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 3 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.|
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Intel Pentium G4560T
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4558U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G4520
2C 2T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-6167U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz |
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AMD A10-7850K
4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Phenom II X4 B99
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.|
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Intel Core i7-4750HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2
6C 12T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-3520M
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Celeron G3930T
2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Intel Celeron G3930
2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.|
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AMD A10-6700T
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Celeron G3920
2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G4400T
2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-4100M
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz |
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AMD Athlon II X4 610e
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-3517U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL)
Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The iGPU test uses the CPU internal graphic unit to execute OpenGL commands.|
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Intel Celeron J3355
Intel HD Graphics 500 @ 0.70 GHz |
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Intel Core M-5Y51
Intel HD Graphics 5300 @ 0.90 GHz |
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Intel Core M-5Y71
Intel HD Graphics 5300 @ 0.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4600U
Intel HD Graphics 4400 @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Celeron G4920
Intel HD Graphics 610 @ 1.05 GHz |
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Intel Celeron G4900T
Intel HD Graphics 610 @ 1.05 GHz |
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Intel Celeron G4900
Intel HD Graphics 610 @ 1.05 GHz |
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Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (SC)
460 entries
460 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
435 entries
435 entries
Cinebench R20 (SC)
625 entries
625 entries
Cinebench R20 (MC)
572 entries
572 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
1,614 entries
1,614 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
1,601 entries
1,601 entries
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
212 entries
212 entries
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
716 entries
716 entries
FP32 SP iGPU
1,829 entries
1,829 entries
AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
44 entries
44 entries
AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
105 entries
105 entries
Blender 3.1 Benchmark
211 entries
211 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
1,409 entries
1,409 entries
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
188 entries
188 entries
V-Ray CPU-Render
211 entries
211 entries
Monero Hashrate
94 entries
94 entries
Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,094 entries
1,094 entries
Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,089 entries
1,089 entries
Geekbench 3 (SC)
942 entries
942 entries
Geekbench 3 (MC)
938 entries
938 entries
Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
824 entries
824 entries
Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
835 entries
835 entries
Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries
383 entries
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