Intel Core i5-7600K vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Core i5-7600K vs Core i7 X 990 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 X 990 beats the Core i5-7600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-7600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-7600K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7 X 990. The info from our database shows that the Core i7 X 990 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-7600K

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.