Intel Core i7-6700 vs Intel Core i7-1355U

Core i7-6700 vs Core i7-1355U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1355U beats the Core i7-6700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1355U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700. Indeed, the Core i7-1355U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1355U. Despite this, the Core i7-1355U has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1355U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6700. The Core i7-1355U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.