Intel Core i7-7700 vs Intel Core i7-1265U

Core i7-7700 vs Core i7-1265U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1265U beats the Core i7-7700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1265U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-7700 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1265U outputs less heat than Core i7-7700 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 i7-1265U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-7700. The Core i7-1265U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.