Intel Core i7-6700K vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Core i7-6700K vs Core i3-1215U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700K is faster than the Core i3-1215U. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1215U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6700K has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1215U. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Core i7-6700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i3-1215U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6700K. The Core i3-1215U also has slightly 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 i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.