The decent hardware allows the Aspire to handle tasks without issues for the most part.
In the Cinebench R15 multi-test, this CPU only trailed the i5 processor by about 10 %, however. The more potent sibling Acer Aspire V5-591G-71K2 comes with the quad-core i7-6700HQ (also Skylake), which is nearly twice as powerful and leaves the i5-6200U in the dust.Ī less expensive alternative is the Medion Akoya E6422, which features the less powerful i3-6100U. There are no noticeable differences in performance between our review notebook and the Toshiba Satellite L50-C-275, which is equipped with the same CPU. The Broadwell-predecessor i5-5200U clearly trails the new CPU, which features a better architecture with slightly higher clock speeds and improves upon the scores of the older version by between 10 and 15 percent. With the notebook running on battery power and under sustained load, the clock speed of the CPU takes some hits and we saw short-term drops from 2600 MHz down to 400 MHz as a result. The i5-6200U has nominal clock speed of 2.3 Gz the Turbo can overclock both cores to 2.7 Ghz and one core to 2.8 GHz, respectively. For most users, the performance should be more than adequate.
With a TDP of 15 watts, the CPU is a frugal middle-class ULV model. Acer uses a new Skylake dual-core SoC from Intel.
