Intel Core i5-6600K vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Core i5-6600K vs Core i7-8850H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8850H performs better than the Core i5-6600K. Despite this, the Core i5-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8850H has significantly more cores with 6 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 i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8850H 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. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-8850H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. The Core i7-8850H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.