Intel Core i5-4460T vs Intel Core i7-3517U

Core i5-4460T vs Core i7-3517U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3517U is faster than the Core i5-4460T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4460T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-4460T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3517U. Indeed, the Core i5-4460T has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-3517U. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-4460T and Core i7-3517U are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-3517U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3517U outputs less heat than Core i5-4460T thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Core i5-4460T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.