Intel Core i7-7700HQ vs Intel Core i5-1035G1

Core i7-7700HQ vs Core i5-1035G1 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7700HQ beats the Core i5-1035G1 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1035G1 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700HQ has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1035G1. Also, the Core i7-7700HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1035G1 outputs less heat than Core i7-7700HQ thanks to a 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 i7-7700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.