Windows 10: My current laptop is having Intel core i5 7200U CPU @ 2.50 GHz. Is it not enough to...

Please help me with the issue

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Windows 10 -- Intel (R) vs Intel i

You are exactly right.... it is i5

I misread... and typed in the incorrect specs

Intel (R) Core (TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50Ghz 2.71 GHz

Workstation Requirements

Laptop/Desktop:

• Speed: Dual-Core 2.8-GHz | Intel i class or higher
• Hard Drive: 60 GB usable memory or higher
  
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Operating System: Windows 10

Is there a way to increase the 2.71 GHz to 2.8 GHz ????

Thanking you in advance; I await your reply.

 

Task Manager showing Intel Core i5-2500K operating at 5.29GHz??


Intel introduced EIST about a decade ago. It means on idle you are clocking in at the lowest available frequency which in my Core i5-4300u's case is 0.8 GHz. This helps tremendously in saving power especially on laptops and mobile devices. It doesn't harm the performance at all since the CPU will clock back to its normal/overclocked frequency when there's a CPU load. Turbo Boost is Intel's dynamic overclock where the CPU is forced to operate at its TDP in any given CPU load. For example, if you have a dual core CPU, the only way to achieve the TDP limit is to have a full load on both Cores, so running full load on one core while the 2nd core is mostly idle will take approximately 60-70% of CPUs TDP. Therefore, to reach CPU's TDP with only one core loaded, one of the CPU cores must be temporarily overclocked to about 50-150% (depends on the CPU model) to reach that TDP on only one core.

For example, my Core i5-4300U has a normal frequency of 1.9 GHz with Turbo boost to 2.6 GHz on both cores (about ~90% CPU usage on both cores).


EIST enabled
idling at 0.8 GHz, 35 degrees Celsius, 1.5 Watts power use.





Both Cores loaded at ~90% CPU usage
2.6 GHz speed, 73 degrees Celsius core temp, ~15 Watts power use (TDP)

 

2 cores

Intel product page

https://ark.intel.com/products/80817/Intel-Core-i5-4460-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_40-GHz

states it is a 4 core cpu.

Does win10 task manager or other software like cpuid's hardware monitor show 4 or 2 cores ?

The cpu is not a hyper thread version, so do not think that is the issue.

Win10 should see all physical cores. logical cores and threads if hyper threading is enabled.

Amd fx and some of the apu versions can have this.