Intel Core i7-3517U vs Intel Pentium 5405U

Core i7-3517U vs Pentium 5405U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium 5405U is faster than the Core i7-3517U. Despite this, the Core i7-3517U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Pentium 5405U outputs less heat than Core i7-3517U thanks to a 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. Indeed, the Core i7-3517U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.