Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Core i7-8665U

Core i7-6700HQ vs Core i7-8665U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700HQ is faster than the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8665U 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.