Intel Core i5-6440HQ vs Intel Core i5-7300U

Core i5-6440HQ vs Core i5-7300U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6440HQ beats the Core i5-7300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6440HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-7300U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Both the Core i5-6440HQ and Core i5-7300U have the same clock speed. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i5-7300U outputs less heat than Core i5-6440HQ thanks to a 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 i5-6440HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.