Intel Core i7-3517U vs Intel Pentium 6405U

Core i7-3517U vs Pentium 6405U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3517U beats the Pentium 6405U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 6405U 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. The Pentium 6405U 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.