Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Core i5-5257U

Core i7-6600U vs Core i5-5257U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-5257U beats the Core i7-6600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-5257U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. Despite this, the Core i7-6600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-5257U CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.