Intel Core i5-7600 vs Intel Core i7-6700

Core i5-7600 vs Core i7-6700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6700 beats the Core i5-7600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-6700 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6700. Also, the Core i5-7600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-6700 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 i5-7600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.