Intel Core i7-7600U vs Intel Core i5-4200H

Core i7-7600U vs Core i5-4200H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7600U beats the Core i5-4200H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4200H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i7-7600U and Core i5-4200H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-7600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4200H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-7600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.