Intel Core i5-11600K vs Intel Core i9-7980XE

Core i5-11600K vs Core i9-7980XE comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7980XE beats the Core i5-11600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core i5-11600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11600K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7980XE CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.