Intel Core i5-6200U vs Intel Core i7 Q 740

Core i5-6200U vs Core i7 Q 740 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6200U beats the Core i7 Q 740 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 740 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-6200U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6200U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6200U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 Q 740.

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 i5-6200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.