Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel N150

Core i7-6500U vs N150 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the N150 beats the Core i7-6500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the N150 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-6500U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N150.

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