Intel Core i7-7660U vs Intel Core i7-8650U

Core i7-7660U vs Core i7-8650U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8650U performs better than the Core i7-7660U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7660U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8650U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7660U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7660U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7660U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8650U. Despite this, the Core i7-8650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-7660U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.