Intel Core i5-7300U vs Intel Core i7 M 620

Core i5-7300U vs Core i7 M 620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7300U beats the Core i7 M 620 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7 M 620 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7 M 620 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7300U.

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 i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.