Intel Core i5-3340M 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1242 points

8% slightly better overall score

1149 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2524 points

11% slightly better gaming score

2264 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

914 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

853 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

877 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

817 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.39 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

17.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1118 points

1720 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

554 points

872 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1053 points

1695 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

525 points

881 points

67% 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

2.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

13% 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

888th 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 i5-3340M vs Core i7-5500U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3340M performs better than the Core i7-5500U. Despite this, the Core i7-5500U 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 i5-3340M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5500U. Also, the Core i5-3340M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5500U outputs less heat than Core i5-3340M 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 i5-3340M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.