Intel Core i5-7200U vs Intel Core i7-6500U

Core i5-7200U vs Core i7-6500U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6500U beats the Core i5-7200U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-7200U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Both the Core i5-7200U and Core i7-6500U have the same clock speed. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.