Could I5 be faster then I7 ?

[oudmaster]

hi all
Could some I5 be faster then I7 ?

if yes then how it is possible ?

 

[rolli59]

At the same clock speeds they should be equal, until you get more threads for the I7 to handle. That is theory but it has been seen in some game benchmarks that the I5 can have a little edge.

 

[AshyCFC]

depends what i7 and what i5.

I'd assume the 4670k is faster a first generation i7 as well.

 

[oudmaster]

I mean what is the point to design I5 faster then I7 ?

 

[rolli59]

It is not designed faster! Certain benchmarks it may do a little better but overall it is slower.

 

[AshyCFC]

rolli

don't forget it could be an older i7 like the i7 930 vs the i5 4670k or something as well.

 

[rolli59]

rolli

don't forget it could be an older i7 like the i7 930 vs the i5 4670k or something as well.

That is correct assumption but we have to give the OP the benefit of a doubt that he understands that new CPU's are introduced because there is progress in technology and 1st gen I7 would easily loose to 4th gen I5!
Although I answered a question yesterday about which is faster dual core or core 2 duo which is a dual core as well.

 

[satyamdubey]

There is a marketing purpose and an expected use with the chip design.

i3's are more geared and oriented towards home use and simple business oriented solutions.

i5's are more mainstream business oriented chips and are the backbone of most gaming system setup.

i7's are targeted towards users with very specific high load tasks such as modelling, video rendering and generally requirements where time to finish a task are of a critical nature.

you can game pretty much equally on any of the chips from the same architecture but there is measurable differences when say a rendering load is involved.

In my office, we do product renders using flamingo raytrace and that software is sadly not optimized to even use a gpu. Although our workstations have quadro cards, raytrace only employs all the phisical and logical cores available and the i7's>i5's>i3's...and we have tested this.

render times on a lower clocked i7 (a 930 with a 2.9 GHz base speed) still finishes faster than sandy i5 we have (I think it's a 2400 with a base clock of 3.1 Ghz and 3.4 turbo)

-Satyam