Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Core i7-6600U vs Pentium Silver J5040 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6600U performs better than the Pentium Silver J5040. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver J5040 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-6600U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6600U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i7-6600U thanks to a 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.