Intel Core i5 M 560 vs Intel Core i7 Q 720

Core i5 M 560 vs Core i7 Q 720 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5 M 560 beats the Core i7 Q 720 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 720 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 Q 720 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5 M 560 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5 M 560. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5 M 560 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7 Q 720. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

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