1, and the market price
i5 oriented mainly to the end of mainstream users, generally priced at between 1000-2000 yuan, most users will choose mainstream i5 processor.
i7 is the high-end users of the products are generally priced two thousand dollars, the flagship desktop to give users a more smooth experience, and in general can maintain the longer smooth platform software will not be eliminated.
2, the core technology products
i5 dual-core analog quad-core (four threads), can Turbo.
i7 quad-core analog eight-core (eight threads), can Turbo.
3, power consumption
I5 small power consumption.
i7 high power consumption.
4, thread performance
i5 processor single-threaded performance weak less than 10% (according to estimates i5-7600K and i7-7700K SuperPI score) than the i7, multi-threaded performance weaker than 30% (according to estimates chess results).
5, secondary cache
Two opposing i5 i7 processor cache is typically larger on 2MB, which is a major difference. Larger cache can call more RAM to enhance performance, reduce power consumption.
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