Intel Core i7-4702MQ vs Intel Core i5-6500TE

Core i7-4702MQ vs Core i5-6500TE benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6500TE beats the Core i7-4702MQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4702MQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4702MQ has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6500TE has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4702MQ. Also, the Core i5-6500TE has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6500TE outputs less heat than Core i7-4702MQ thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-6500TE has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4702MQ. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-4702MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.