Intel Core i5-7400 vs Intel Core i7-6700T

Core i5-7400 vs Core i7-6700T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6700T beats the Core i5-7400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-6700T has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6700T. Despite this, the Core i7-6700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-6700T outputs less heat than Core i5-7400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-6700T also has slightly 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 i5-7400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.