Intel Core i7-7600U vs Intel Core i7-860

Core i7-7600U vs Core i7-860 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-860 is faster than the Core i7-7600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7600U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-7600U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7600U. Both the Core i7-7600U and Core i7-860 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-7600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-860 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.