Intel Core i5-10600K vs Intel Core i7-9700

Core i5-10600K vs Core i7-9700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10600K is faster than the Core i7-9700. Despite this, the Core i7-9700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-10600K. Indeed, the Core i7-9700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10600K. Despite this, the Core i5-10600K has more threads than the Core i7-9700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700. Also, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700 outputs less heat than Core i5-10600K thanks to a 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 i7-9700 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i5-10600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.