Intel Core i5-7260U vs Intel Core i5-6198DU

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1263 points

2% slightly better overall score

1229 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2397 points

2443 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

956 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

913 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

917 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

876 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.96 points

66% significantly higher Blender score

21.63 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

2.4 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

907th of 1,124

921st of 1,124

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7260U vs Core i5-6198DU benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-7260U performs better than the Core i5-6198DU. Despite this, the Core i5-6198DU 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6198DU has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7260U.

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 i5-7260U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.