Intel Pentium 6405U vs Intel Core i7 Q 720

Compare Intel 2 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

953 points
5% slightly better overall score
907 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1881 points
28% slightly better gaming score
1463 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

712 points
740 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

683 points
709 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.36 points
13.97 points
13% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

965th of 1,089
981st of 1,089

Pentium 6405U vs Core i7 Q 720 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium 6405U is faster than the Core i7 Q 720. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 720 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 Q 720 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium 6405U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium 6405U.

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 Pentium 6405U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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