Intel Core i7-5600U vs Intel Core i7 Q 740

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1056 points
1104 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2095 points
19% slightly better gaming score
1750 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

783 points
914 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

750 points
878 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.29 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
20.30 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed
1.73 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
1 MiB
100% 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

947th of 1,105
936th of 1,105

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 i7-5600U vs Core i7 Q 740 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 Q 740 is faster than the Core i7-5600U. Despite this, the Core i7-5600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-5600U. Indeed, the Core i7 Q 740 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-5600U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5600U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-5600U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 Q 740. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5600U. The Core i7 Q 740 also has significantly more 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 i7-5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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