Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Core i5-6198DU

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1171 points

1221 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2334 points

2390 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

865 points

912 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

827 points

875 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.09 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

21.63 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

940th of 1,126

923rd of 1,126

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6600U vs Core i5-6198DU specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6198DU is faster than the Core i7-6600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6600U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6198DU.

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.