Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Core i5-4210U

Core i7-6600U vs Core i5-4210U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6600U is faster than the Core i5-4210U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6600U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4210U. Also, the Core i7-6600U has a slightly 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.

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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.