Intel Core i7-3520M vs Intel Core i7-5600U

Core i7-3520M vs Core i7-5600U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5600U beats the Core i7-3520M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3520M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3520M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5600U. Also, the Core i7-3520M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5600U outputs less heat than Core i7-3520M thanks to a significantly 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 i7-3520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.