Intel Core i7-6700 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Core i7-6700 vs Core Ultra 5 125U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 125U beats the Core i7-6700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-6700 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6700. Also, the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700. The Core Ultra 5 125U 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.