Intel Core i5-650 vs Intel Core i7 Q 740

Core i5-650 vs Core i7 Q 740 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 Q 740 beats the Core i5-650 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-650 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-650 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-650. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-650 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7 Q 740.

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 i5-650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.