Intel Core i5-6600 vs Intel Core i7-1065G7

Core i5-6600 vs Core i7-1065G7 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6600 beats the Core i7-1065G7 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1065G7 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-1065G7 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1065G7. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-1065G7 outputs less heat than Core i5-6600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-1065G7 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.