Intel Core i5-7600K vs Intel Core i7-8700T

Core i5-7600K vs Core i7-8700T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700T beats the Core i5-7600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-7600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8700T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-7600K. Indeed, the Core i7-8700T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-7600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700T. Also, the Core i5-7600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8700T outputs less heat than Core i5-7600K 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 i7-8700T has more L2 cache than the Core i5-7600K. The Core i7-8700T 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 i5-7600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.