Intel Core i5 M 430 vs Intel Core i7 M 620

Core i5 M 430 vs Core i7 M 620 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5 M 430 is faster than the Core i7 M 620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 M 620 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7 M 620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5 M 430. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7 M 620 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5 M 430 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.