Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125H

Core i7-6600U vs Core Ultra 5 125H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 125H performs better than the Core i7-6600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-6600U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6600U. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. Also, the Core Ultra 5 125H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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.