Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Core i5-3337U

Core i7-6700HQ vs Core i5-3337U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700HQ is faster than the Core i5-3337U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3337U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-6700HQ has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3337U. Indeed, the Core i7-6700HQ has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-3337U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3337U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700HQ has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3337U. Also, the Core i7-6700HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3337U outputs less heat than Core i7-6700HQ thanks to a 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 i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.