Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Core i7-5600U

Core i7-6700HQ vs Core i7-5600U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6700HQ beats the Core i7-5600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-6700HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-5600U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5600U. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-6700HQ and Core i7-5600U are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-6700HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5600U 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.

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