Intel Core i5-3230M vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-5500U

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 1928.01 significantly less expensive

$ 2028.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1086 points

1149 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2128 points

2264 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

812 points

853 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

780 points

817 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

17.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1041 points

1720 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points

872 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1017 points

1695 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

505 points

881 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

2.6 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

927th of 1,089

912th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

5th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3230M vs Core i7-5500U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5500U is faster than the Core i5-3230M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3230M in all gaming tests too.

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 i5-3230M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5500U. Also, the Core i5-3230M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5500U outputs less heat than Core i5-3230M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-3230M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.