Intel Core i7-10710U vs Intel Core i7-6600U

Core i7-10710U vs Core i7-6600U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10710U beats the Core i7-6600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10710U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6600U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6600U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6600U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10710U. Despite this, the Core i7-10710U 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.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-10710U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.