Intel Core i7-5600U vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1056 points
1361 points
28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2095 points
2723 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

783 points
1012 points
29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

750 points
975 points
30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.29 points
32.79 points
24% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
2.60 GHz
0.04% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
Identical
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

933rd of 1,089
851st of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Core i7-5600U vs Core i7-6498DU specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6498DU is faster than the Core i7-5600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5600U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6498DU has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5600U. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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. Indeed, the Core i7-5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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