Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Core i7-8565U

Core i7-6700HQ vs Core i7-8565U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700HQ is faster than the Core i7-8565U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8565U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700HQ has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8565U. Despite this, the Core i7-8565U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8565U 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.