Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core i7-6600U

Core i5-11600 vs Core i7-6600U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6600U is faster than the Core i5-11600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6600U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6600U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. Also, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-6600U outputs less heat than Core i5-11600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.