Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Core i7-1360P

Core i7-5960X vs Core i7-1360P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5960X beats the Core i7-1360P in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1360P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1360P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-5960X has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5960X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1360P. Despite this, the Core i7-1360P has a much higher turbo speed.

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.