Intel Core i5-11600K vs Intel Core i7-6700

Core i5-11600K vs Core i7-6700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600K is faster than the Core i7-6700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700 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 i7-6700 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6700. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-6700 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. In terms of cache, the Core i5-11600K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6700. The Core i5-11600K also has significantly more 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 i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.