Intel Core i5-460M vs Intel Core i5-560M

Question

What are the differences between the Intel Core i5-460M and Intel Core i5-560M? Are there any significant advantages of the 560 over the 460?

Answer 1

Intel's ARK site has the full details on the differences. Primarily, the 560m has support for the following where the 460m does not:

• Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)

• Intel® Trusted Execution Technology

• AES New Instructions

If you need any of those features, then pay the extra cash.

Edit: Here's Intel's page on VT-d in regards to your comment.

Answer 2

As per the specifications below, I'm not quite sure that it worth to pay like 100$ more for the 560M since it's almost the same except for the CPU frequency.

I would stick with an i5 460M or an i7 if there is a not huge price difference. So both are dual cores with (I think) four threads, so it is not a big deal between these two processors. I hope this will help you!

Core i5-460M

• Frequency: 2.53 GHz
• GPU Freq: 500–766 MHz
• Cache L2: 2 × 256 KB
• Cache L3: 3 MB
• Memory: 2 × DDR3-1066
• Socket: µPGA-988 - BGA-1288

Core i5-560M

• Frequency: 2.67 GHz
• GPU Freq: 500-766 MHz
• Cache L2: 2 × 256 KB
• Cache L3: 3 MB
• Memory: 2 × DDR3-1066
• Socket: µPGA-989

Answer 3

• The 460M runs at 2.53 GHz as compared to 2.66 GHz for the 560M.
• The 460M has TurboBoost of up to 2.8 GHz, as compared to 3.2 GHz for the 560M
• The 460M does not support Intel VT-d, AES New instructions or Trusted execution capability.

Ref: Intel's ARK comparison