comparison

[Heavy360]

Intel core i7 6500U vs core i5 6300HQ which is better

[DrM]

6300hq

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6500U-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6300HQ/m36930vsm38166

[Killjoy_NS]

Any REAL thoughts except synthetic benchmarks???

[LordMastodon]

As long as they're both the same generation, an i7 will ALWAYS be better. It would seem as though these are laptop CPUs though, so I would like at the other things that come with the laptop, such as graphics card, hard drive, display, etc.

[Djxinator]

8 minutes ago, LordMastodon said:

As long as they're both the same generation, an i7 will ALWAYS be better. It would seem as though these are laptop CPUs though, so I would like at the other things that come with the laptop, such as graphics card, hard drive, display, etc.

Not correct - the laptop variants of the i7 come in 2 Core / 4 Thread or 4 Core / 8 Thread SKUs

 

The above i7 is a 2 Core / 4 Thread SKU and the i5 is a true 4 Core

 

In light of this, the i5 should be much, much quicker.

[LordMastodon]

Ah. I was thinking of the Desktop versions, where people can (mostly) count version numbers correctly. Thank you for correcting me.