Intel Core i5-6600K vs Intel Core 7 150U

Core i5-6600K vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 7 150U is faster than the Core i5-6600K. Despite this, the Core i5-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-6600K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core 7 150U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. The Core 7 150U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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