Intel Core i5-6600K vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 175.64
$ 48.05 slightly less expensive
$ 223.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2754 points
8601 points
212% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5105 points
11043 points
116% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2098 points
7824 points
272% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2013 points
7622 points
278% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2595 points
7397 points
185% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.62 points
193.46 points
247% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4043 points
11074 points
173% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1429 points
2320 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.7 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
192 GiB
200% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
9.5 MiB
850% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
20 MiB
233% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

578th of 1,089
120th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i5-6600K vs Core i5-14400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14400F 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14400F has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-6600K has 4 cores. 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 i5-14400F. Despite this, the Core i5-14400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. The Core i5-14400F also has significantly 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. For instance, the Core i5-6600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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