Intel Pentium 997 vs Intel Core M-5Y10c

Intel Pentium 997
Intel BGA1023MOBILE
1600 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2012
Intel Pentium 997
Intel Core M-5Y10c
MOBILE
800 MHz / Cores: 2 / Oct 2014
Intel Core M-5Y10c

Summary

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium 997

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider Intel Core M-5Y10c

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Intel Core M-5Y10c

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core M-5Y10c

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Pentium 997

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Pentium 997

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

Intel Pentium 997Intel Core M-5Y10c
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
Intel 64
XD bit (an NX bit implementation)
Smart Cache.
AVX
EIST
XD bit
VT-x
Hyper-Threading

Architecture

Intel Pentium 997Intel Core M-5Y10c
ArchitectureIntel_SandyBridgevsIntel_Broadwell
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR4
CodenameSandy BridgevsBroadwell-Y
Release DateSep 2012vsOct 2014

Cores

Intel Pentium 997Intel Core M-5Y10c
Cores2vs2
Threads2vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsIntel HD (Sandy Bridge)vsIntel HD 5300

Cache

Intel Pentium 997Intel Core M-5Y10c
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache2048 KB (shared)vs4096 KB (shared)

Physical

Intel Pentium 997Intel Core M-5Y10c
SocketIntel BGA1023vs
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackagerPGAvs
Die Size131mm²vs50mm²
Process32 nmvs14 nm

Performance

Intel Pentium 997Intel Core M-5Y10c
Cpu Frequency1600 MHzvs800 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs2000 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP17 Wvs5 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium 997
    1600 points
  • Intel Core M-5Y10c
    2240 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium 997
    3200 points
  • Intel Core M-5Y10c
    2150 points

Points - higher is better