Intel Core i5-6300U vs Intel Core i7-870

Core i5-6300U vs Core i7-870 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-870 is faster than the Core i5-6300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-870 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6300U. Indeed, the Core i7-870 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-6300U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6300U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6300U. Also, the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-870 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.