Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel Core i5-4200U

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 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

1306 points

44% significantly better overall score

903 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2566 points

45% significantly better gaming score

1763 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

974 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

678 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

934 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

654 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.12 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

14.77 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1641 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1358 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

719 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

691 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

2.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

870th of 1,089

984th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6500U vs Core i5-4200U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6500U is faster than the Core i5-4200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4200U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6500U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4200U. Also, the Core i7-6500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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