Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Core i7-1185G7

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-1185G7

Price

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$ 103.63

$ 1174.32 significantly less expensive

$ 1277.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

3014 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4255 points

5168 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1743 points

2395 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1675 points

2286 points

36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.07 points

60.09 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3159 points

5178 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1147 points

1697 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3287 points

5187 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1202 points

1724 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.8 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

12 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

663rd of 1,089

538th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6500 vs Core i7-1185G7 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1185G7 is faster than the Core i5-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-1185G7 has more threads. The Core i7-1185G7 outputs less heat than Core i5-6500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-6500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.