IS THERE A MASSIVE DIFFERENCE IN I5 to I7

spirit

spirit

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Depends what you're using your PC for. For gaming and general surfing the web and stuff: no. But for stuff like encoding and editing: yeah, there's a bigger difference.
 
PCunicorn

PCunicorn

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No. Even in the things where the i7 does beat the i5 it isn't a massive difference. In rendering movies, etc. It will around a 30 percent difference, then no difference in gaming. I am comparing the new i5s and i7s, the 3570K and 3770K.
 
salvage-this

salvage-this

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If it is in the same generation, just Hyperthreading and Cache. Depending on what you are comparing there might be more but it is usually just smaller features in the chip.
 
spirit

spirit

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Twiki said:
Does an i7 have features not found in an i5?
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Hyper-Threading. Desktop i5s have four cores and four threads. Desktop i7s have four cores and eight threads. The extra threads are useful for stuff like rendering and encoding and is what makes the i7 better than the i5 for that kind of stuff.
 
The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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Hyperthreading, cache and clock speed. For most people, you wouldn't even notice the difference between an i5 and i7. Both overclock nicely and unless you're doing heavy multi-tasking or multi-threaded apps, hyperthreading offers little benefits.
 
Okedokey

Okedokey

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The answer is yes. The question wasn't do you find any differences.

30% difference in rendering times is MASSIVE! That is about as good a jump as you get in any hardware difference.

The answer is yes. If you need cores, the answer is Yes.
 
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