Intel Core i5-11600K vs Intel Core i7-4770

Core i5-11600K vs Core i7-4770 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11600K performs better than the Core i7-4770. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4770 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11600K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4770 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4770. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4770 outputs less heat than Core i5-11600K 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 i5-11600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4770. The Core i5-11600K 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 i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.