Intel Core i5 3470 Review: HD 2500 Graphics Tested
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 31, 2012 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Ivy Bridge
- GPUs
General Performance
The general performance of the Core i5-3470 is nothing too unusual. We know from our original Ivy Bridge review that the advantage over Sandy Bridge is typically in the single digits. In other words, if Sandy Bridge was a good upgrade for your current system, Ivy Bridge won't change things. Idle power doesn't really improve over Sandy Bridge, but load power is a bit better.
Compared to the 3770K, you will lose out on heavily threaded performance due to the lack of Hyper Threading. But for many client workloads, including gaming, you can expect the 3470 to perform quite similarly to the 3770K.
| Power Consumption Comparison | ||||
| Intel DZ77GA-70K | Idle | Load (x264 2nd pass) | ||
| Intel Core i7-3770K | 60.9W | 121.2W | ||
| Intel Core i5-3470 | 54.4W | 96.6W | ||
| Intel Core i5-3470 @ 4GHz | 54.4W | 110.1W | ||
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Ryan Smith - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - link
Your completely right. We were in a rush and copied that passage from our original IVB review, which is no longer applicable.SteelCity1981 - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - link
Intel could have at least called it a 3500 and slap 2 more EU's onto it.fic2 - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - link
Agreed. I don't understand why Intel basically stood pat on the low end HD.But then again like everyone else I never understood why the HD3000 was only in the K series and maybe 5% of K series users don't have discreet gpu so the HD3000 isn't being used.
CeriseCogburn - Monday, June 11, 2012 - link
Good point. Lucid logic tried to fix that some, and did a decent job, and don't forget quick sync, plus now with zero core amd cards, and even low idle power 670's and 680's, leaving on SB K chip hd3000 cores looks even better - who isn't trained in low power if they have a video card, after all it's almost all people rail about for the last 4 years.So if any of that constant clamor for a few watts power savings has any teeth whatsoever, every person with an amd card before this last gen will be using the SB HD3000 and then switching on the fly to gaming with lucid logic.
n9ntje - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - link
So this must be a midrange desktop chip? Horrendous performance on the graphics side from Intel again.Very curious how AMD's trinity dekstop will perform, at the same pricerange it will be obvious it will obliterate Intel's offerings on the graphics side. What's more impressive AMD is still on 32nm..
7Enigma - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - link
For me this IS the perfect chip. No use for the GPU so cheaper = better. I would need a K model though for OC'ing potential, but I'm glad to see that if I can't have my CPU-only (no GPU) chip, at least I can have a hacked down version that is more in line with a traditional CPU.silverblue - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - link
What Intel should really be doing here is offering the 4000 on all i3s and some i5s to offset the reduced CPU performance. If you want to give AMD something to think about, HD 4000 on an Ivy Bridge dual core is very much the right way of going about it.CeriseCogburn - Friday, June 1, 2012 - link
Then Intel has a lame trinity level cpu next to a losing gpu.I think Intel will stick with it's own implementations, don't expect to be hired as future product manager.
ShieTar - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - link
Interestingly enough, Intel will also happily sell you what is basically the same chip, without any GPU, 100 MHz slower but with 2MB extra L3-Cache for the same price. They call that offer Xeon E3-1220V2. And it is 69W TDP, not 77W as the i5-3470.Who knows, the bigger Cache might even make it the better CPU for a not-overclocking gamer. If normal boards support it.
Pazz - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - link
Anand,Following on from your closing statement with regards to the HD 4000 being the miniumum, will you be doing a review of the 3570K? Surely with this model being the lowest budget Ivy HD4000 chip, it'll be a fairly popular option for many system builders and OEM's.