Intel Core 7 150U vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Core 7 150U vs Core i7 X 980 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 X 980 beats the Core 7 150U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7 X 980 has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 980 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core 7 150U

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core 7 150U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.