Intel Core i5-3317U vs Intel Core i7 M 620

Core i5-3317U vs Core i7 M 620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 M 620 beats the Core i5-3317U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3317U 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 M 620 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3317U.

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 i5-3317U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.