Intel Core i7-6820HQ vs Intel Core i5-1145G7

Core i7-6820HQ vs Core i5-1145G7 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1145G7 is faster than the Core i7-6820HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6820HQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6820HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1145G7. Despite this, the Core i5-1145G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1145G7 outputs less heat than Core i7-6820HQ 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 i7-6820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.