Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs Intel Core i7-3540M

Core i5-6300HQ vs Core i7-3540M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6300HQ beats the Core i7-3540M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3540M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6300HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-3540M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6300HQ. Also, the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3540M outputs less heat than Core i5-6300HQ thanks to a slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-6300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.