Intel Core i7-7600U vs AMD A10-6700

Core i7-7600U vs A10-6700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the A10-6700 beats the Core i7-7600U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the A10-6700 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7600U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-6700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7600U. Also, the A10-6700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7600U CPU outputs less heat than a A10-6700 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 i7-7600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.