Intel Core i7-7700HQ vs Intel Atom D2550

Core i7-7700HQ vs Atom D2550 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7700HQ beats the Atom D2550 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Atom D2550 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-7700HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Atom D2550 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Atom D2550. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700HQ has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Atom D2550.

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 i7-7700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.