Intel Pentium B950 vs Intel Core i3-2350M

Intel Pentium B950
Intel Socket G2 (988B)MOBILE
2100 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jun 2011
Intel Pentium B950
Intel Core i3-2350M
Intel Socket G2 (988B)MOBILE
2300 MHz / Cores: 2 / Oct 2011
Intel Core i3-2350M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Intel Pentium B950
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    126%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium B950
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    108%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium B950
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    133%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium B950

None

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-2350M

8% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 33% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 26% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i3-2350M

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i3-2350M

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i3-2350M

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i3-2350M

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

Intel Pentium B950Intel Core i3-2350M
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
Intel 64
XD bit (an NX bit implementation)
Smart Cache.
AVX
EIST
XD bit
Intel VT-x
Hyper-Threading
Smart Cache

Architecture

Intel Pentium B950Intel Core i3-2350M
ArchitectureIntel_SandyBridgevsIntel_SandyBridge
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR3
CodenameSandy BridgevsSandy Bridge
Release DateJun 2011vsOct 2011

Cores

Intel Pentium B950Intel Core i3-2350M
Cores2vs2
Threads2vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsIntel HD (Sandy Bridge)vsIntel HD 3000

Cache

Intel Pentium B950Intel Core i3-2350M
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache2048 KB (shared)vs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

Intel Pentium B950Intel Core i3-2350M
SocketIntel Socket G2 (988B)vsIntel Socket G2 (988B)
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackagerPGAvsrPGA
Die Size131mm²vs149mm²
Process32 nmvs32 nm

Performance

Intel Pentium B950Intel Core i3-2350M
Cpu Frequency2100 MHzvs2300 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP35 Wvs35 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium B950
    2100 points
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    2300 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium B950
    4200 points
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    5520 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • Intel Pentium B950
    2491
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    3381

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (64-bit Single Core)

  • Intel Pentium B950
    1719
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    1794

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (64-bit Multi Core)

  • Intel Pentium B950
    2981
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    3820

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • Intel Pentium B950
    1483
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    1614

points - higher is better

3DMark06 CPU

  • Intel Pentium B950
    2145
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    2755

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

  • Intel Pentium B950
    2730
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    3026.5

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

  • Intel Pentium B950
    5255
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    6789.5

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • Intel Pentium B950
    1.63
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    2.2

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • Intel Pentium B950
    18.9
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    17

seconds - lower is better

wPrime 32

  • Intel Pentium B950
    34.3
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    23.84

seconds - lower is better

WinRAR 4.0

  • Intel Pentium B950
    1333
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    2134

MB/s - higher is better

TrueCrypt AES

  • Intel Pentium B950
    0.16
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    0.19

GB/s

TrueCrypt Twofish

  • Intel Pentium B950
    0.13
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    0.16

GB/s

TrueCrypt Serpent

  • Intel Pentium B950
    0.07
  • Intel Core i3-2350M
    0.1

GB/s