Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel Core i5-3570K

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1793.00
$ 139.00
$ 1654.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1306 points
2217 points
69% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2566 points
4077 points
58% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

974 points
1694 points
73% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

934 points
1627 points
74% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.12 points
35.69 points
48% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1641 points
2162 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

719 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
704 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

2.5 GHz
3.4 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz
3.8 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
413% significantly lower TDP
77 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

870th of 1,089
679th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-6500U vs Core i5-3570K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3570K is faster than the Core i7-6500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-3570K has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6500U. Indeed, the Core i5-3570K has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6500U. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3570K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6500U. Also, the Core i5-3570K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3570K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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