Intel Core i7-6560U vs Intel Core i7-8665U

Core i7-6560U vs Core i7-8665U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8665U beats the Core i7-6560U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6560U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8665U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-6560U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6560U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6560U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has a significantly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-6560U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.