Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs Intel Core i7-920

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-920

Price

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$ 1918.00

$ 99.95

$ 1818.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1438 points

1474 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2667 points

7% slightly better gaming score

2489 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1096 points

1179 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1053 points

1132 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.90 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

31.28 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2685 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

970 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

419 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2777 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1431 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1025 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

415 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.79 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

2.93 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

166% significantly more supported memory

24 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

826th of 1,089

814th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2008 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300HQ vs Core i7-920 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-920 beats the Core i5-6300HQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-6300HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-920 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-920 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6300HQ. Despite this, the Core i5-6300HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-920 CPU because of its 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.