Intel Core i5-13600K vs Intel Core i7-13700K

Core i5-13600K vs Core i7-13700K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700K beats the Core i5-13600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700K has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-13600K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-13700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600K. Also, the Core i7-13700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-13700K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13600K. The Core i7-13700K also has slightly 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 i5-13600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.