Intel Core i3-5005U vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Core i3-5005U vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 X 990 beats the Core i3-5005U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-5005U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-5005U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-5005U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 990 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-5005U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-5005U

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-5005U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.