Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Core i7-6560U

Core i5-8250U vs Core i7-6560U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8250U is faster than the Core i7-6560U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6560U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8250U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6560U. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6560U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6560U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6560U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8250U. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.