Intel Core i5 450m vs i7 720qm for modern and near future gaming

[rYLIE]

I need some difference between Intel Core i5 and Intel Core i7. There are two processors in my mind Intel Core i5 450m and Intel Core i7 720QM. Which processor among is best suitable for the future gaming support. I want to provide solution to my friend who wants to upgrade his system for that. But he is not able to determine which one is better among the both.

[Balamani]

The Intel Core i5, a variation of less powerful Core in comparison to Intel Core i7. Intel X58 chipset was the first to be compatible with both technologies rendering multi-card AMD CrossFire and NVIDIA SLI which also works well with both cpu's. It depends on your choice. Today even Intel Core i3 with a good GPU support is more than enough for gaming. The only difference is that this cpu's provide overclocking support.

[Balamohan]

Intel Core cpus are low power consumption processors. These low lower version of the Intel Core i5 and Core i7 with a TDP of 95Wattsfor passing the classic version to 82Watts. The basic frequency of exchange and loses i5/i7 Core 266MHz on each model to reach 2.40GHz on Core i5 and 2.53GHz for the Core i7. If the base frequency reduces the maximum frequency via the Turbo is the same for the classic versions.

[Apple.Mac.Rocker]

It looks like that Intel has made the Turbo's CPU more elastic. The Radeon HD 4870 X2 is still the most powerful graphics card from ATI. CPU clock speed in our case the PCI-Express Integrated on the Core i5 is quiet high. Ultimately, at high resolutions, two graphics cards are better than one. So that simply hikes your cost while upgrading. That choice in on you what you want to add.

[Sn0w-Le0p@rD]

The Core i5 is currently one of the most anticipated processors. The CPU is based on the Lynnfield core and to serve the mainstream market. Although it is known that Intel probably not set to the name Core i5, but we use the term, meanwhile, nevertheless, to minimize confusion. Against him appears to the i5 Core 2.66GHz and four cores. I will recommend you to go for Core i5.

[PeterAGASSI]

In today's high end graphic games the Core i7 and i5 are improving day by day. Now the question remains whether the graphics card was the limiting unit in the game benchmarks. Only in the memory interface which is especially the bandwidth in the Core i5 can provide a little much effect. But the Bloomfield processors are based on the Nehalem architecture along with the X58 chipset is really a server platform.

[MattyBoy]

I found both of them as quiet a nice processor. The Core i7 Triple-Channel support where there are three memory modules in parallel and the Core i5 supports only dual-channel which has two memory modules in parallel. Intel also took advantage of the Nehalem architecture to review the arrangement of the cache. Now there is a third level of cache which quantity amounts to 8 MB L3 memory This is naturally shared between each core.

[Socratesx]

Actually core i7 series offer higher performance than core i5 series. But this is not true for every model. But at your case it seems that the core i7 720 will offer more for future gaming. This is because core i5 and core i7 use different sockets. This means that each processor will need for sure a different motherboard. If the cost is no problem then go for the core i7 as in the future you will have more options to take advantage of a core i7 system. Also the core i7 720 is a quad core while the core i5 450 is dual core. This is going to affect even more future gaming.