Both models
i7-6560U and
i5-6300HQ are based on
Skylake architecture.
Sky Lake is also known as 6th generation Core. Include Thunderbolt 3.0, SATA Express and Iris Pro graphics with DirectX 12. It uses LGA 1151 socket for mainstream models and LGA 2066 for X-Series. Sky Lake comes with AVX2 support in all mainstreams CPUs and AVX-512 in some high end models.
Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i7-6560U gets a score of
107 k points while the i5-6300HQ gets
135.1 k points.
Summarizing, the
i5-6300HQ is
1.3 times faster than the
i7-6560U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.