Intel Core i5-10600K vs Intel Core i7-8086K

Core i5-10600K vs Core i7-8086K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10600K beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8086K. Despite this, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8086K outputs less heat than Core i5-10600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-10600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.