Intel Core i5-6600K vs Intel Core i5-8500

Core i5-6600K vs Core i5-8500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8500 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-8500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-6600K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8500 outputs less heat than Core i5-6600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. 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 i5-8500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. The Core i5-8500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.