Intel Core i7-6700 vs Intel Core i7-5700HQ

Core i7-6700 vs Core i7-5700HQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6700 beats the Core i7-5700HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5700HQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5700HQ. Also, the Core i7-6700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5700HQ outputs less heat than Core i7-6700 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-6700 also has slightly 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.