Intel Core i3-5010U vs Intel Core i7 M 620

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points
29% slightly better overall score
703 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1699 points
19% slightly better gaming score
1418 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

690 points
33% slightly better multitasking score
517 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

663 points
33% slightly better heavy workload score
496 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.60 points
16.70 points
32% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.67 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

980th of 1,089
1,028th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i3
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Core i3-5010U vs Core i7 M 620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-5010U beats the Core i7 M 620 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7 M 620 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 M 620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-5010U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-5010U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7 M 620. Despite this, the Core i7 M 620 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-5010U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-5010U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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