Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core i5-6600K

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 140.00
$ 35.64 slightly less expensive
$ 175.64

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5920 points
114% significantly better overall score
2754 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8284 points
62% significantly better gaming score
5105 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5201 points
147% significantly better multitasking score
2098 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5041 points
150% significantly better heavy workload score
2013 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

158.65 points
185% significantly higher Blender score
55.62 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8131 points
103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3989 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2100 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1400 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7951 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4043 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2104 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1429 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
3.5 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed
3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
40% slightly lower TDP
91 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
25% slightly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

258th of 1,089
578th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-11600 vs Core i5-6600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6600K is faster than the Core i5-11600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-11600 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6600K. Indeed, the Core i5-11600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-6600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11600. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6600K CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-11600 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. The Core i5-11600 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 i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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