Intel Core i5-7500 vs Intel Core i3-530

Core i5-7500 vs Core i3-530 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7500 beats the Core i3-530 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-530 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-7500 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-530. Indeed, the Core i5-7500 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-530. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-530. A Core i5-7500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-530 CPU because of its slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.