Intel Core i7-930 vs Intel Core i5-6500TE

Core i7-930 vs Core i5-6500TE comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6500TE is faster than the Core i7-930. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-930 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-930 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-930 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500TE. Despite this, the Core i5-6500TE has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6500TE outputs less heat than Core i7-930 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-930 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.