Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Core i7-6700K

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Price

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$ 103.63
$ 171.23 significantly less expensive
$ 274.86

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points
3497 points
52% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4255 points
5633 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1743 points
2866 points
64% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1675 points
2751 points
64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2113 points
3242 points
53% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.07 points
81.27 points
84% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3159 points
4822 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1147 points
1442 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3287 points
4936 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1202 points
1506 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
4 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.2 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
Identical
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
Identical
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

665th of 1,092
485th of 1,092

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
6th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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