Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Core i7-5960X vs Core i7-1255U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5960X beats the Core i7-1255U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1255U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1255U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-5960X has 8 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-5960X has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5960X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Core i7-5960X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-5960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.