Intel Core i7-6560U vs Intel Core i5-2520M

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

1024 points

4% slightly better overall score

979 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1896 points

1% slightly better gaming score

1873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

786 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

738 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

757 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

708 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.31 points

74% significantly higher Blender score

12.81 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

915 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

933 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

462 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2113 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

929 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1011 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

467 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

2.2 GHz

2.5 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

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

941st of 1,089

955th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6560U vs Core i5-2520M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6560U is faster than the Core i5-2520M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2520M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2520M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6560U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-6560U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2520M 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 i7-6560U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.