Intel Core i7-1165G7 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Core i7-1165G7 vs Core i7 X 990 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1165G7 performs better than the Core i7 X 990. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-1165G7 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1165G7. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 990 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1165G7.

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 i7-1165G7 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.