Intel Core i5-6300U vs Intel Core i7-1185G7

Core i5-6300U vs Core i7-1185G7 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1185G7 beats the Core i5-6300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1185G7 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-6300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6300U. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-6300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.