Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Core i7-920

Core i7-6600U vs Core i7-920 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-920 is faster than the Core i7-6600U. Despite this, the Core i7-6600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-6600U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6600U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-920 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 i7-920 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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.