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Is the Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.93GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: LGA1156
Clockspeed: 2.9 GHz
Turbo Speed: 3.6 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 8
Typical TDP: 95 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz, Intel Core i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q3 2009
CPUmark/$Price: 19.43
Overall Rank:
2865th fastest in multithreading out of 5482 CPUs
2878th fastest in single threading out of 5482 CPUs
800th fastest in out of 1484 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $163.04 USD (2025-11-28)
| Integer Math | 17,018 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 7,308 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 21 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 9,124 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 594.3 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 68,080 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 356 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 1,960 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 1,385 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 58,546 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,357 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 38,953 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,148 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,845 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 19,542 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,109 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,685 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,653 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,144 | |
| Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.93GHz | 3,167 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 282.23 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 160.91 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 159.58 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 135.21 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 122.15 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 106.30 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 53.74 | |
| Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.93GHz | 19.43 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 4,696 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,601 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,890 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,833 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,678 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 3,487 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,467 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,364 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,915 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,561 | |
| Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.93GHz | 1,385 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL3117659 - Dec 08 2025 | 3554 | |
| BL3117324 - Dec 08 2025 | 3531 | |
| BL3114959 - Dec 07 2025 | 3457 | |
| BL3111324 - Dec 06 2025 | 3399 | |
| BL3109786 - Dec 05 2025 | 3436 |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.93GHz | 3,167 | |
| Intel Core i7-960 @ 3.20GHz vs Intel Core i7-870 | 3,400 (+7.4%) | |
| AMD Phenom II X6 1055T vs Intel Core i7-870 | 3,375 (+6.6%) | |
| Intel Core i7-965 @ 3.20GHz vs Intel Core i7-870 | 3,424 (+8.1%) | |
| AMD A10-7850K APU vs Intel Core i7-870 | 3,394 (+7.1%) | |
| Intel Core i7-875K @ 2.93GHz vs Intel Core i7-870 | 3,177 (+0.3%) | |
| Intel Core i7-860 @ 2.80GHz vs Intel Core i7-870 | 3,013 (-4.9%) | |
| Intel Core i7-930 @ 2.80GHz vs Intel Core i7-870 | 2,995 (-5.4%) | |
| Intel Core2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz vs Intel Core i7-870 | 2,508 (-20.8%) | |
| Intel Core i5-660 @ 3.33GHz vs Intel Core i7-870 | 2,439 (-23.0%) | |
| AMD Phenom II X4 980 vs Intel Core i7-870 | 2,880 (-9.1%) | |
| AMD A10-9700 vs Intel Core i7-870 | 3,555 (+12.2%) | |
| AMD A10-7890K vs Intel Core i7-870 | 3,537 (+11.7%) |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 12,441 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,126 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,254 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,796 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,513 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,449 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D | 10,350 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,270 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,778 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,670 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,477 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285 | 9,412 | |
| Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.93GHz | 566 |
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