Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Core i5-5257U

Core i7-920 vs Core i5-5257U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-920 is faster than the Core i5-5257U. Despite this, the Core i5-5257U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-5257U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-5257U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5257U. Despite this, the Core i5-5257U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-5257U outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-5257U

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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.