Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Core i5-6500 vs Core i7-5500U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6500 beats the Core i7-5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6500 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-5500U. Indeed, the Core i5-6500 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-5500U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5500U. Also, the Core i5-6500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5500U outputs less heat than Core i5-6500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-6500 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-5500U. The Core i5-6500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-6500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.