Intel Core i5-2520M vs Intel Core i7 M 620

Compare Intel Core 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

979 points

39% slightly better overall score

703 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1873 points

32% slightly better gaming score

1418 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

738 points

42% slightly better multitasking score

517 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

708 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

496 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.81 points

16.70 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

2.67 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

955th of 1,089

1,028th of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2520M vs Core i7 M 620 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2520M performs better than the Core i7 M 620. Despite this, the Core i7 M 620 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7 M 620 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2520M.

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 i5-2520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.