Intel Core i5-6500T vs Intel Core i7-7660U

Core i5-6500T vs Core i7-7660U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6500T is faster than the Core i7-7660U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7660U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6500T has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7660U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-6500T and Core i7-7660U are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-7660U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-7660U outputs less heat than Core i5-6500T thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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. For instance, the Core i5-6500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.