Intel Core i5-6300U vs Intel Core i5-7300HQ

Core i5-6300U vs Core i5-7300HQ benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-7300HQ performs better than the Core i5-6300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-7300HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-6300U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7300HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6300U. Also, the Core i5-7300HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-7300HQ 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. Indeed, the Core i5-6300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.