Intel Core i5-7260U vs Intel Core i7-950

Core i5-7260U vs Core i7-950 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-950 beats the Core i5-7260U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-7260U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-950 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7260U. Despite this, the Core i5-7260U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7260U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-950 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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