Intel Core i5-6600K vs Intel Core i3-1125G4

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i3 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2754 points

2810 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5105 points

7% slightly better gaming score

4729 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2098 points

2253 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2013 points

2154 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.62 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

45.54 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3989 points

4219 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1400 points

1435 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4043 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4001 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1429 points

0.85% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1417 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

91 W

28 W

224% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

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

578th of 1,089

568th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

11th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6600K vs Core i3-1125G4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6600K beats the Core i3-1125G4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1125G4 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-1125G4 has more threads. The Core i3-1125G4 outputs less heat than Core i5-6600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Core i5-6600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.