Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs Intel Core i7-930

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 i7-930

Price

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$ 1918.00

$ 307.29

$ 1610.71 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1438 points

1941 points

34% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2667 points

3145 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1096 points

1583 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1053 points

1519 points

44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.90 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

28.18 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2685 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1490 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

970 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

432 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2777 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1449 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1025 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

425 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

2.8 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

3.06 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

729th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2010 February

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 i7-930 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-930 performs better than the Core i5-6300HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300HQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-930 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-930 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 i7-930 CPU because of its 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 i5-6300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.