Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i7-6700T

Core i5-10500 vs Core i7-6700T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10500 beats the Core i7-6700T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-10500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6700T has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700T. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6700T. Also, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-6700T outputs less heat than Core i5-10500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-10500 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700T. The Core i5-10500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.