Intel Core i7-7600U vs Intel Core i5-4690

Core i7-7600U vs Core i5-4690 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4690 is faster than the Core i7-7600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-4690 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7600U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4690 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7600U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-7600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4690 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-7600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.