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Intel Pentium B960 vs Intel Core i7-8665U

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 32 %

Intel Pentium B960

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-8665U

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 19 %

Intel Pentium B960

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-8665U

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.20 GHz

383

4C / 8T · 4.80 GHz

1,437

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.20 GHz

679

4C / 8T · 2.80 GHz

3,732

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.20 GHz

413

4C / 8T · 4.80 GHz

1,127

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.20 GHz

825

4C / 8T · 2.80 GHz

3,314

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)

106

Intel UHD Graphics 620

442

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.20 GHz

338

4C / 8T · 1.90 GHz

1,960

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Pentium B960	Intel Core i7-8665U
Family	Intel Pentium (150)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Intel Pentium 900 (10)	Intel Core i 8000U (WL) (8)
Architecture	Sandy Bridge U	Whiskey Lake U
Technology	32 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	PGA 988	BGA 1356
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Pentium B960	Intel Core i7-8665U
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 2	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	2x	4x
Frequency:	2.20 GHz	1.90 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):		4.80 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		2.80 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	2.00 MB	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Pentium B960	Intel Core i7-8665U
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)	Intel UHD Graphics 620
GPU frequency	0.65 - 1.10 GHz	0.30 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 / 48	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	16 GB
Technology	32 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q2/2011	Q3/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Pentium B960	Intel Core i7-8665U
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Pentium B960	Intel Core i7-8665U
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 16	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Pentium B960	Intel Core i7-8665U
TDP	35 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.	85 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Pentium B960	Intel Core i7-8665U
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2011	Q2/2019
Release price		409 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Pentium B960 is 4.5 stars (6 ratings), while Intel Core i7-8665U has received 4.2 stars (36 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Pentium B960
2C / 2T · 2.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-8665U
4C / 8T · 1.90 - 4.80 GHz

★★★★★