Intel Core i5-7260U vs Intel Core i7-3820QM

Core i5-7260U vs Core i7-3820QM specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3820QM is faster than the Core i5-7260U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7260U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3820QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-7260U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7260U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3820QM has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7260U. Also, the Core i7-3820QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7260U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3820QM CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.