Intel Core i5-7600 vs Intel Core i7-7700

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-7700

Price

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$ 435.00

$ 102.50

$ 332.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2712 points

3300 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5048 points

5283 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2059 points

2715 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1975 points

2606 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.82 points

74.17 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3774 points

4377 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1343 points

1353 points

0.74% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3832 points

4482 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1390 points

1405 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.2 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

Identical

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

585th of 1,089

500th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

7th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7600 vs Core i7-7700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7700 is faster than the Core i5-7600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-7700 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7600. Also, the Core i7-7700 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-7700 also has slightly 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 i5-7600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.