Intel Core i5-4210H vs Intel Core i7-5600U

Core i5-4210H vs Core i7-5600U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4210H performs better than the Core i7-5600U. Despite this, the Core i7-5600U 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 i5-4210H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5600U. Also, the Core i5-4210H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5600U outputs less heat than Core i5-4210H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-4210H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.