Intel Core i3-5005U vs Intel Core 2 Duo E7500

Core i3-5005U vs Core 2 Duo E7500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-5005U beats the Core 2 Duo E7500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E7500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-5005U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E7500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-5005U. A Core i3-5005U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E7500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E7500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-5005U

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-5005U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.