Intel Core i3-2330M

The Intel Core i3-2330M is a dual core processor commonly seen on entry level core i-Series notebook PCs. The Intel Core i3-2310M is created on the Sandy Bridge architecture and clocked at 2.2 GHz. This Sandy Bridge processor offers Hyperthreading Technology to handle 4 threads at once for improvement in performance of up 20% more. Compared to the faster Core i5 and i7, the Core i3 does not offer the TurboBoost technology for the CPU part therefore the clock speed is fixed at 2.2 GHz. This is faster by 100 MHz faster than the Intel Core i3-2330M model.

The core i3-2330M processor, just like the 2310M and 2350M, has three cache levels, wherein each of the CPU core has its own 64 KB first level, 256 KB second level cache, and the cores share 3 MB third level cache. The L3 cache of the core i3-2330M, just like the 2310M and 2350M, is also shared with the integrated graphics processing controller.

The GPU of this microprocessor called Intel HD Graphics 3000 is HD-capable, and supports 3D acceleration and video processing features like Quick Sync, Clear Video HD, and InTru 3D. The On-chip memory controller of core i3-2330M has two channels and works with DDR3 memory. The CPU supports Intel 64, SIMD streaming extensions up to SSE4, and AVX instructions. Intel i3-2330M incorporates VT-x virtualization and HyperThreading. The Core i3-2330M supports quite a lot of instruction extension but not all like the TurboBoost Technology that is why its clock speed is fixed at 2.2 GHz.

The table below shows the processors' performance in terms of PassMark rating. The higher the rating the better the performance of the processor.

Processors	Passmark Rating
Intel Atom N435	246
Intel Atom N280	315
AMD E-240	317
Intel Atom N450	318
Intel Atom N455	321
AMD C-50	453
Intel Atom N550	567
AMD C-60	592
AMD E-300	595
Intel Atom N570	646
AMD E-350 APU	725
AMD E-450	768
Intel Core i3 380UM	1305
AMD Athlon II P360	1348
AMD A4-3310MX	1417
Celeron B800	1454
AMD Turion II P540	1497
Pentium T4500	1546
Pentium P6200	1624
Intel Core i3-2367M	1842
Intel Pentium B950	1976
AMD E2-3000M	2044
Intel Core i5-2467M	2172
AMD A4-3300M	2196
intel Core i3-370M	2220
Intel Core i3 380M	2313
Intel Core i5-2557M	2590
Intel Core i5 460M	2612
Intel Core i3 2310M	2619
Intel Core i5 560M	2671
Intel Core i7 620M	2794
Intel Core i3 2330M	2803
Intel Core i3-2350M	3084
AMD A6-3410MX APU	3157
AMD A8-3500M	3166
Intel Core i7-2677M	3176
Intel Core i7 720QM	3294
Intel Core i5 2410M	3350
AMD A8-3510MX	3359
AMD A8-3530MX	3431
Intel Core i5 2430M	3484
AMD A6-3400M	3539
Intel Core i7 2620M	3907
Intel Core i7 2640M	4165
Intel Core i7 2675QM	6144
Intel Core i7 2630QM	6334
Intel Core i7 2635QM	6574
Intel Core i7 2670QM	6804
Intel Core i7 2720QM	7040
Intel Core i7 2820QM	7495
Intel Core i7 2760QM	7586
Intel Core i7 2920XM	7680
Intel Core i7 2860QM	8012
Intel Core i7 2960XM	8861