Intel Core i5 M 560 vs Intel Core i7 M 620

Compare Intel 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

947 points
34% slightly better overall score
703 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1902 points
34% slightly better gaming score
1418 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

699 points
35% slightly better multitasking score
517 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

670 points
35% slightly better heavy workload score
496 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.56 points
16.70 points
58% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.67 GHz
Identical
2.67 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
Identical
0.25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

968th of 1,089
1,028th of 1,089

Core i5 M 560 vs Core i7 M 620 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 M 620 is faster than the Core i5 M 560. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5 M 560 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. According to our data, the Core i5 M 560 and Core i7 M 620 have the same clock speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

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

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