Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Core i7-1365U

Core i7-5960X vs Core i7-1365U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5960X beats the Core i7-1365U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1365U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1365U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-5960X that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-5960X has more threads than the Core i7-1365U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5960X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1365U. Despite this, the Core i7-1365U has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-5960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.