Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Core i7-950 vs Core i7-6498DU benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6498DU is faster than the Core i7-950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-6498DU has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6498DU. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6498DU.

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 i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.