Intel Core i7-5500U vs Intel Core i5-1334U

Core i7-5500U vs Core i5-1334U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1334U is faster than the Core i7-5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1334U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-5500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5500U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1334U. Despite this, the Core i5-1334U has a significantly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1334U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-5500U. The Core i5-1334U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.