Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs Intel Core i3-5005U

Core i5-7300HQ vs Core i3-5005U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7300HQ is faster than the Core i3-5005U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-5005U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-7300HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-5005U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7300HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-5005U. The Core i3-5005U outputs less heat than Core i5-7300HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-7300HQ has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-5005U. The Core i5-7300HQ also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i5-7300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.