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

Core i7-7700K vs Core i7-1265U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7700K is faster than the Core i7-1265U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1265U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1265U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7700K. Indeed, the Core i7-1265U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-7700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 i7-7700K 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 i7-7700K. The Core i7-1265U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.