Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Core i7-6500U vs Core i7-6498DU benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6498DU performs better than the Core i7-6500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6498DU has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6500U.

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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.