Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Core i7-6700HQ vs Core i3-1220P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1220P beats the Core i7-6700HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700HQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-6700HQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700HQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700HQ has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1220P outputs less heat than Core i7-6700HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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