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Is the Intel Core i7-970 @ 3.20GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: LGA1366
Clockspeed: 3.2 GHz
Turbo Speed: 3.5 GHz
Cores: 6 Threads: 12
Typical TDP: 130 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 6 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 6 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 6 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 12 MB
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 970 @ 3.20GHz, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 970 @ 3.20GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q3 2010
CPUmark/$Price: 12.50
Overall Rank:
1727th fastest in multithreading out of 5074 CPUs
2452nd fastest in single threading out of 5074 CPUs
508th fastest in out of 1430 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $523.26 USD (2024-05-07)
| Integer Math | 27,712 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 11,634 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 29 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 15,007 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,440 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 112,717 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 442 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 3,140 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 1,467 MOps/Sec |
| Merchant | Price | Purchase |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,736 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,317 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,048 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,489 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,134 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,868 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,187 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,712 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,645 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,144 | |
| Intel Core i7-970 @ 3.20GHz | 6,538 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 141.54 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 131.16 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.32 | |
| Intel Core i7-970 @ 3.20GHz | 12.50 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | NA | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,612 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,141 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,018 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,902 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,837 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,680 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,470 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,363 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,922 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,564 | |
| Intel Core i7-970 @ 3.20GHz | 1,467 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2522580 - Mar 31 2025 | 5925 | |
| BL2506786 - Mar 25 2025 | 6367 | |
| BL2501965 - Mar 23 2025 | 6983 | |
| BL2423730 - Feb 18 2025 | 6723 | |
| BL2354674 - Jan 20 2025 | 6418 |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-970 @ 3.20GHz | 6,538 | |
| Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz vs Intel Core i7-970 | 8,205 (+25.5%) | |
| Intel Core i7-9850HL @ 1.90GHz vs Intel Core i7-970 | 7,897 (+20.8%) | |
| Intel Core i7-980 @ 3.33GHz vs Intel Core i7-970 | 6,867 (+5.0%) | |
| Intel Core i7-980X @ 3.33GHz vs Intel Core i7-970 | 6,835 (+4.5%) | |
| AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core vs Intel Core i7-970 | 6,140 (-6.1%) | |
| Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz vs Intel Core i7-970 | 5,481 (-16.2%) | |
| Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz vs Intel Core i7-970 | 5,347 (-18.2%) | |
| Intel Core i7-4765T @ 2.00GHz vs Intel Core i7-970 | 5,125 (-21.6%) | |
| AMD Phenom II X6 1090T vs Intel Core i7-970 | 3,796 (-41.9%) | |
| Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.60GHz vs Intel Core i7-970 | 5,779 (-11.6%) | |
| AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core vs Intel Core i7-970 | 5,297 (-19.0%) | |
| Intel Core i7-6700 @ 3.40GHz vs Intel Core i7-970 | 8,060 (+23.3%) |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 12,516 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,176 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,328 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,845 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,601 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,514 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,293 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,817 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 245K | 9,692 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,521 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF | 9,418 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 235 | 9,341 | |
| Intel Core i7-970 @ 3.20GHz | 1,047 |
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