Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Core i5-6300HQ vs Core i7-5500U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6300HQ is faster than the Core i7-5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6300HQ has significantly more cores than the Core i7-5500U. Indeed, the Core i5-6300HQ has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-5500U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6300HQ. Despite this, the Core i5-6300HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5500U outputs less heat than Core i5-6300HQ 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. For instance, the Core i5-6300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.