Intel Core i5 M 430 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E7200

Core i5 M 430 vs Core 2 Duo E7200 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Duo E7200 beats the Core i5 M 430 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5 M 430 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5 M 430 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E7200 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5 M 430. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E7200 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5 M 430

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 M 430 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.