Intel Core i5-6600 vs Intel Core i7-8665U

Core i5-6600 vs Core i7-8665U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-6600 performs better than the Core i7-8665U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8665U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-8665U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-6600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8665U 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 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. For instance, the Core i5-6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.