Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs Intel Core i5-6500TE

Core i5-7300HQ vs Core i5-6500TE specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7300HQ is faster than the Core i5-6500TE. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6500TE in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7300HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500TE. Also, the Core i5-7300HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6500TE outputs less heat than Core i5-7300HQ thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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