Intel Core i7-11600H vs Intel Core Ultra 7 356H

Core i7-11600H vs Core Ultra 7 356H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 356H is faster than the Core i7-11600H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11600H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-11600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11600H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11600H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 356H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-11600H. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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. Indeed, the Core i7-11600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.