Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i7-7700K

Core i5-10500 vs Core i7-7700K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10500 beats the Core i7-7700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700K 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 i7-7700K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10500. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i5-10500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-10500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700K. The Core i5-10500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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