Intel Core i7-8500Y vs Intel Core i7-960

Core i7-8500Y vs Core i7-960 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-960 is faster than the Core i7-8500Y. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8500Y in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-960 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-8500Y that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8500Y. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-960 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8500Y. Despite this, the Core i7-8500Y has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8500Y CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-960 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 i7-8500Y has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.