Intel Core i7-7500U vs Intel Core i7-950

Core i7-7500U vs Core i7-950 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7500U beats the Core i7-950 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7500U. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-7500U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7500U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7500U. Despite this, the Core i7-7500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-950 CPU because of its 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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.