Intel Core i5-6600K vs Intel Core i5-11260H

Core i5-6600K vs Core i5-11260H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11260H is faster than the Core i5-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-11260H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6600K. Indeed, the Core i5-11260H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-6600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11260H. Despite this, the Core i5-11260H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11260H 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.

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