Intel Core i7-6700 vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Core i7-6700 vs Core i7-1260U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700 is faster than the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-6700 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260U outputs less heat than Core i7-6700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1260U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6700. The Core i7-1260U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.