Intel Core i7-5500U vs Intel N200

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 2028.00
$ 547.73
$ 1480.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1149 points
1175 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2264 points
9% slightly better gaming score
2063 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

853 points
930 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

817 points
904 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.15 points
115% significantly higher Blender score
7.96 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
139% significantly higher clock speed
1 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

912th of 1,089
905th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Core i7-5500U vs N200 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the N200 beats the Core i7-5500U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the N200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-5500U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N200. The info from our database shows that the N200 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-5500U. The N200 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.

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