Intel Core i3-7350K vs Intel Core i5-6500T

Core i3-7350K vs Core i5-6500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6500T beats the Core i3-7350K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7350K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6500T has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7350K. Indeed, the Core i5-6500T has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7350K. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7350K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6500T. The Core i5-6500T outputs less heat than Core i3-7350K thanks to a 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 i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.