i5 Broadwell vs i5 Skylake

[computercpu]

Hello guys! The two processors I'm thinking about are i5-5200U (Broadwell) vs i5-6200U (Skylake). So what are the major difference between these two processors or are there any? If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming would I be able to notice any difference in performance between the two processors? And how well would these two processors perform for this kind of laptop usage demand?

Clearly the Skylake, i5-6200U, runs on a 0,1 GHz higher base and turbo clock. However, on top of this small boost, how much more faster does the 6200U performe compared to the 5200U taking into consideration that it's 6th gen?

 

[basroil]

"harshwell" is cheap chinese crap most likely, Intel only makes Haswell, and ALL Haswell chips are 4000 series. The i5 5200U is Broadwell.

That said, Skylake has a MUCH better iGPU, so unless you have a discrete card from nvidia or amd, Skylake is better.

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

"Harshwell"? Really? That's actually "Broadwell". There is a small IPC improvement, barely noticable power efficiency gain but noticably better integrated graphics. I'd get the i5-6200 but if it's much cheaper the i5-5200 is fine.

 

[computercpu]

OOOOPPSSS sorryyyyy my mistake obviously it's Broadwell...... sorry for the mistake guys. So it's ofcourse i5-5200U (Broadwell) vs i5-6200U (Skylake), I'll correct that silly mistake right away

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hello guys! The two processors I'm thinking about are i5-5200U (Harshwell) vs i5-6200U (Skylake). So what are the major difference between these two processors or are there any? If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming would I be able to notice any difference in performance between the two processors? And how well would these two processors perform for this kind of laptop usage demand?

Clearly the Skylake, i5-6200U, runs on a 0,1 GHz higher base and turbo clock. However, on top of this small boost, how much more faster does the 6200U performe compared to the 5200U taking into consideration that it's 6th gen?

The difference in performance should be minimal.
But i would look for something else waaay more important: The 6 series model is more likely to have an m.2 slot(and yed you DO want one of those, as no pc nowadays should be without an SSD, adn the lack of an m.2 slot means you'll be replacing your HDD with an ssd and have to use the hhd externally or install it in the cdrom's place and what not.)
Really, i cant stress this enough, look for a laptop model taht has an m.2 slot.

 

[computercpu]

"harshwell" is cheap chinese crap most likely, Intel only makes Haswell, and ALL Haswell chips are 4000 series. The i5 5200U is Broadwell.

That said, Skylake has a MUCH better iGPU, so unless you have a discrete card from nvidia or amd, Skylake is better.

What if it was i5-6200U with integrated 520 vs i5-5200U with GeForce 920M. BTW obviously the i5-5200U is Broadwell. Really silly mistake from me, I corrected it...

 

[basroil]

The difference in performance should be minimal.
But i would look for something else waaay more important: The 6 series model is more likely to have an m.2 slot(and yed you DO want one of those, as no pc nowadays should be without an SSD, adn the lack of an m.2 slot means you'll be replacing your HDD with an ssd and have to use the hhd externally or install it in the cdrom's place and what not.)
Really, i cant stress this enough, look for a laptop model taht has an m.2 slot.

U series chips are laptop ones, which means most likely there's no upgrading the disk regardless. Most i5 laptops already come with an SSD too, even haswell/broadwell ones

 

[computercpu]

"Harshwell"? Really? That's actually "Broadwell". There is a small IPC improvement, barely noticable power efficiency gain but noticably better integrated graphics. I'd get the i5-6200 but if it's much cheaper the i5-5200 is fine.

What if it was i5-6200U with integrated 520 vs i5-5200U with GeForce 920M. BTW obviously the i5-5200U is Broadwell. Really silly mistake from me, I corrected it... So what's the point on making a new i5-6200U compared to the i5-5200U if there really is no difference at least to notice?

 

[computercpu]

"Harshwell"? Really? That's actually "Broadwell". There is a small IPC improvement, barely noticable power efficiency gain but noticably better integrated graphics. I'd get the i5-6200 but if it's much cheaper the i5-5200 is fine.

What if it was i5-6200U with integrated 520 vs i5-5200U with GeForce 920M. BTW obviously the i5-5200U is Broadwell. Really silly mistake from me, I corrected it... So what's the point on making a new i5-6200U compared to the i5-5200U if there really is no difference at least to notice?

 

[basroil]

What if it was i5-6200U with integrated 520 vs i5-5200U with GeForce 920M. BTW obviously the i5-5200U is Broadwell. Really silly mistake from me, I corrected it... So what's the point on making a new i5-6200U compared to the i5-5200U if there really is no difference at least to notice?

the 6200 is probably better choice, the 920M is basically the same as the iGPU (and even a 940M is only a small bit better at low resolutions), and the lack of dGPU means longer battery

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

The i5-5200U/920M probably outperforms the i5-6200U but uses more power.

 

[computercpu]

Hello guys! The two processors I'm thinking about are i5-5200U (Harshwell) vs i5-6200U (Skylake). So what are the major difference between these two processors or are there any? If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming would I be able to notice any difference in performance between the two processors? And how well would these two processors perform for this kind of laptop usage demand?

Clearly the Skylake, i5-6200U, runs on a 0,1 GHz higher base and turbo clock. However, on top of this small boost, how much more faster does the 6200U performe compared to the 5200U taking into consideration that it's 6th gen?

The difference in performance should be minimal.
But i would look for something else waaay more important: The 6 series model is more likely to have an m.2 slot(and yed you DO want one of those, as no pc nowadays should be without an SSD, adn the lack of an m.2 slot means you'll be replacing your HDD with an ssd and have to use the hhd externally or install it in the cdrom's place and what not.)
Really, i cant stress this enough, look for a laptop model taht has an m.2 slot.

The laptop's I'm looking at both have 2 hard drive slots and both have 1TB HDD and 128GB SSD so that shouldn't be the issue. I'm just thinking about the CPU that is it worth spending extra 50USD on the laptop with i5-6200 (skylake) if there is no actual change in performance

 

[computercpu]

What if it was i5-6200U with integrated 520 vs i5-5200U with GeForce 920M. BTW obviously the i5-5200U is Broadwell. Really silly mistake from me, I corrected it... So what's the point on making a new i5-6200U compared to the i5-5200U if there really is no difference at least to notice?

the 6200 is probably better choice, the 920M is basically the same as the iGPU (and even a 940M is only a small bit better at low resolutions), and the lack of dGPU means longer battery

So what are your thoughts on how would the i5-6200U would perform with the tasks I would be using my laptop for (brief list usage up on the description of the topic). Is two cores with 2.3GHz and 2.8GHz turbo enough to achieve optimum performance?

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hello guys! The two processors I'm thinking about are i5-5200U (Harshwell) vs i5-6200U (Skylake). So what are the major difference between these two processors or are there any? If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming would I be able to notice any difference in performance between the two processors? And how well would these two processors perform for this kind of laptop usage demand?

Clearly the Skylake, i5-6200U, runs on a 0,1 GHz higher base and turbo clock. However, on top of this small boost, how much more faster does the 6200U performe compared to the 5200U taking into consideration that it's 6th gen?

The difference in performance should be minimal.
But i would look for something else waaay more important: The 6 series model is more likely to have an m.2 slot(and yed you DO want one of those, as no pc nowadays should be without an SSD, adn the lack of an m.2 slot means you'll be replacing your HDD with an ssd and have to use the hhd externally or install it in the cdrom's place and what not.)
Really, i cant stress this enough, look for a laptop model taht has an m.2 slot.

The laptop's I'm looking at both have 2 hard drive slots and both have 1TB HDD and 128GB SSD so that shouldn't be the issue. I'm just thinking about the CPU that is it worth spending extra 50USD on the laptop with i5-6200 (skylake) if there is no actual change in performance

Oh, excellent. Spend the extra 50 for the newer platform on the one hand, but, more importantly, to avoid a discrete graphics card(yes, you read that right: lighter, more battery life, less stuff to go bad etc. Plus the utter uselessness, driver clutter etc.
That is, if the aren't any other differences worth mentioning like screen type and quality etc.

 

[computercpu]

Hello guys! The two processors I'm thinking about are i5-5200U (Harshwell) vs i5-6200U (Skylake). So what are the major difference between these two processors or are there any? If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming would I be able to notice any difference in performance between the two processors? And how well would these two processors perform for this kind of laptop usage demand?

Clearly the Skylake, i5-6200U, runs on a 0,1 GHz higher base and turbo clock. However, on top of this small boost, how much more faster does the 6200U performe compared to the 5200U taking into consideration that it's 6th gen?

The difference in performance should be minimal.
But i would look for something else waaay more important: The 6 series model is more likely to have an m.2 slot(and yed you DO want one of those, as no pc nowadays should be without an SSD, adn the lack of an m.2 slot means you'll be replacing your HDD with an ssd and have to use the hhd externally or install it in the cdrom's place and what not.)
Really, i cant stress this enough, look for a laptop model taht has an m.2 slot.

The laptop's I'm looking at both have 2 hard drive slots and both have 1TB HDD and 128GB SSD so that shouldn't be the issue. I'm just thinking about the CPU that is it worth spending extra 50USD on the laptop with i5-6200 (skylake) if there is no actual change in performance

Oh, excellent. Spend the extra 50 for the newer platform on the one hand, but, more importantly, to avoid a discrete graphics card(yes, you read that right: lighter, more battery life, less stuff to go bad etc. Plus the utter uselessness, driver clutter etc.
That is, if the aren't any other differences worth mentioning like screen type and quality etc.

And what are your thoughts on how would the i5-6200U perform If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming. Is two cores with 2.3GHz and 2.8GHz turbo enough to achieve optimum performance? (+6gb RAM)

 

[basroil]

more than enough

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hello guys! The two processors I'm thinking about are i5-5200U (Harshwell) vs i5-6200U (Skylake). So what are the major difference between these two processors or are there any? If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming would I be able to notice any difference in performance between the two processors? And how well would these two processors perform for this kind of laptop usage demand?

Clearly the Skylake, i5-6200U, runs on a 0,1 GHz higher base and turbo clock. However, on top of this small boost, how much more faster does the 6200U performe compared to the 5200U taking into consideration that it's 6th gen?

The difference in performance should be minimal.
But i would look for something else waaay more important: The 6 series model is more likely to have an m.2 slot(and yed you DO want one of those, as no pc nowadays should be without an SSD, adn the lack of an m.2 slot means you'll be replacing your HDD with an ssd and have to use the hhd externally or install it in the cdrom's place and what not.)
Really, i cant stress this enough, look for a laptop model taht has an m.2 slot.

The laptop's I'm looking at both have 2 hard drive slots and both have 1TB HDD and 128GB SSD so that shouldn't be the issue. I'm just thinking about the CPU that is it worth spending extra 50USD on the laptop with i5-6200 (skylake) if there is no actual change in performance

Oh, excellent. Spend the extra 50 for the newer platform on the one hand, but, more importantly, to avoid a discrete graphics card(yes, you read that right: lighter, more battery life, less stuff to go bad etc. Plus the utter uselessness, driver clutter etc.
That is, if the aren't any other differences worth mentioning like screen type and quality etc.

And what are your thoughts on how would the i5-6200U perform If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming. Is two cores with 2.3GHz and 2.8GHz turbo enough to achieve optimum performance? (+6gb RAM)

No problems whatsoever. It's a dual core, but it has hyperthreading, so , as far as the kind of work you are mentioning is concearned it's asif it had 4.

As a curiosity, what's the make and model. I'm always interested in dual drive or m.2 slot laptops.

EDIT: go for 8gigs of ram if you can. 6 may prove a little short in the future(or even now, depending on your browsing style. mind you, both firefox and chrome have 64-bit versions that can access more than 4 gigs. and, btw, you should be using those)

 

[computercpu]

Hello guys! The two processors I'm thinking about are i5-5200U (Harshwell) vs i5-6200U (Skylake). So what are the major difference between these two processors or are there any? If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming would I be able to notice any difference in performance between the two processors? And how well would these two processors perform for this kind of laptop usage demand?

Clearly the Skylake, i5-6200U, runs on a 0,1 GHz higher base and turbo clock. However, on top of this small boost, how much more faster does the 6200U performe compared to the 5200U taking into consideration that it's 6th gen?

The difference in performance should be minimal.
But i would look for something else waaay more important: The 6 series model is more likely to have an m.2 slot(and yed you DO want one of those, as no pc nowadays should be without an SSD, adn the lack of an m.2 slot means you'll be replacing your HDD with an ssd and have to use the hhd externally or install it in the cdrom's place and what not.)
Really, i cant stress this enough, look for a laptop model taht has an m.2 slot.

The laptop's I'm looking at both have 2 hard drive slots and both have 1TB HDD and 128GB SSD so that shouldn't be the issue. I'm just thinking about the CPU that is it worth spending extra 50USD on the laptop with i5-6200 (skylake) if there is no actual change in performance

Oh, excellent. Spend the extra 50 for the newer platform on the one hand, but, more importantly, to avoid a discrete graphics card(yes, you read that right: lighter, more battery life, less stuff to go bad etc. Plus the utter uselessness, driver clutter etc.
That is, if the aren't any other differences worth mentioning like screen type and quality etc.

And what are your thoughts on how would the i5-6200U perform If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming. Is two cores with 2.3GHz and 2.8GHz turbo enough to achieve optimum performance? (+6gb RAM)

No problems whatsoever. It's a dual core, but it has hyperthreading, so , as far as the kind of work you are mentioning is concearned it's asif it had 4.

As a curiosity, what's the make and model. I'm always interested in dual drive or m.2 slot laptops.

EDIT: go for 8gigs of ram if you can. 6 may prove a little short in the future(or even now, depending on your browsing style. mind you, both firefox and chrome have 64-bit versions that can access more than 4 gigs. and, btw, you should be using those)

It comes in stock with 6GB DDR3L RAM, but I'll most likely update it to 8GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM. And the computer is Toshiba Satellite L50-C-29V 15.6" . I though live in Finland so it might come with different specs then in your country but the double m.slot should still be same in all.

Here is a link to the Finnish website if you are interested (you can translate the page with google chrome): http://www.gigantti.fi/product/tietokoneet/kannettavat-tietokoneet/SATL50C29V/toshiba-satellite-l50-c-29v-15-6-kannettava-valk

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hello guys! The two processors I'm thinking about are i5-5200U (Harshwell) vs i5-6200U (Skylake). So what are the major difference between these two processors or are there any? If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming would I be able to notice any difference in performance between the two processors? And how well would these two processors perform for this kind of laptop usage demand?

Clearly the Skylake, i5-6200U, runs on a 0,1 GHz higher base and turbo clock. However, on top of this small boost, how much more faster does the 6200U performe compared to the 5200U taking into consideration that it's 6th gen?

The difference in performance should be minimal.
But i would look for something else waaay more important: The 6 series model is more likely to have an m.2 slot(and yed you DO want one of those, as no pc nowadays should be without an SSD, adn the lack of an m.2 slot means you'll be replacing your HDD with an ssd and have to use the hhd externally or install it in the cdrom's place and what not.)
Really, i cant stress this enough, look for a laptop model taht has an m.2 slot.

The laptop's I'm looking at both have 2 hard drive slots and both have 1TB HDD and 128GB SSD so that shouldn't be the issue. I'm just thinking about the CPU that is it worth spending extra 50USD on the laptop with i5-6200 (skylake) if there is no actual change in performance

Oh, excellent. Spend the extra 50 for the newer platform on the one hand, but, more importantly, to avoid a discrete graphics card(yes, you read that right: lighter, more battery life, less stuff to go bad etc. Plus the utter uselessness, driver clutter etc.
That is, if the aren't any other differences worth mentioning like screen type and quality etc.

And what are your thoughts on how would the i5-6200U perform If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming. Is two cores with 2.3GHz and 2.8GHz turbo enough to achieve optimum performance? (+6gb RAM)

No problems whatsoever. It's a dual core, but it has hyperthreading, so , as far as the kind of work you are mentioning is concearned it's asif it had 4.

As a curiosity, what's the make and model. I'm always interested in dual drive or m.2 slot laptops.

EDIT: go for 8gigs of ram if you can. 6 may prove a little short in the future(or even now, depending on your browsing style. mind you, both firefox and chrome have 64-bit versions that can access more than 4 gigs. and, btw, you should be using those)

It comes in stock with 6GB DDR3L RAM, but I'll most likely update it to 8GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM. And the computer is Toshiba Satellite L50-C-29V 15.6" . I though live in Finland so it might come with different specs then in your country but the double m.slot should still be same in all.

Here is a link to the Finnish website if you are interested (you can translate the page with google chrome): http://www.gigantti.fi/product/tietokoneet/kannettavat-tietokoneet/SATL50C29V/toshiba-satellite-l50-c-29v-15-6-kannettava-valk

Man, I'm not doubting you if you know what you know, but i've googled this and i don't think it has a dual m.2.
Where did you gather that info?

EDIT: nevermind, i was confusing threads. thanks for the info.